Chapter 1180: At Odds
Yang Ping completed the separation of the brainstem and began separating the cervical spine, opening it effortlessly from the posterior side. This kind of surgery is the simplest for Yang Ping, who comes from an orthopedics background; it's the kind he performed daily in the past.
Opening the cervical spine from the rear revealed the cervical spinal cord. Separating the cervical spinal cord is not necessarily any easier than the brainstem; it's just that the consequences of failure are relatively lighter. Failure in brainstem surgery results in death, while cervical spine surgery failure leads to high-level paralysis. If it's too high, impacting the contraction of respiratory muscles, the patient's ultimate outcome could still be death.
Bone tissue is opened, the membrane surrounding the spinal cord is opened, revealing the spinal cord and the nerve roots on both sides. The ordinary surgical knife is once again exchanged for the laser knife to begin the separation of the cervical spinal cord. No one now doubts that the chief surgeon can successfully separate the cervical spinal cord.
Those who previously criticized, condemned, and mocked, now all fall silent, quietly observing the surgery with a mindset of respect and learning.
In this world, the most real rule is actually the rule of strength. It is the operating rule of the entire universe. Whether in human society or nature, it is the core rule that governs operation.
In the face of the strength displayed by this surgery, all verbal attacks are pale and weak. It's like a massive hammer smashing any doubts into pieces, leaving no one daring to doubt further.
And those scholars insulted by Manstein as fools are now genuinely seen as such by doctors worldwide. Various influential forces behind them have ended up achieving nothing, with their efforts ultimately in vain.
In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracies and tricks are entirely ineffective.
Yang Ping, while separating the cervical spinal cord, also completed the correction of the cervical spine. Below the cervical spine, the thoracic vertebrae are independent but due to the connection of the cervical spine, the thoracolumbar spine was severely deformed. Yang Ping now needed to correct them together.
Cervical spine correction is extremely difficult, unlike ordinary spinal correction. It presents a challenging issue, which is dealing with the bone, muscle, and skin deficiencies after separation. Other doctors have no way of handling it, but at Sanbo Hospital with the localized cloning technology, there is ample cloned muscle and skin, while the biological 3D printing technology can precisely fit the bone tissue to fill the bone defect.
Yang Ping's specialty surgery is scoliosis correction. He once won the national Golden Knife Award for it, astonishing the world and establishing his initial standing in the medical field.
"Why is he still the chief surgeon? Isn't he a neurosurgeon? Shouldn't a spinal surgeon complete the upcoming surgery? This surgery needs a team of top-notch doctors from various specialties to complete it." Raymond observed that the chief surgeon hadn't changed.
Massimo smiled faintly and said, "Neurosurgeon? I've said before; he's just casually interested in neurosurgery, not a professional neurosurgeon. If you must say which specialty he belongs to, he is an orthopedic doctor."
"An orthopedic doctor performing neurosurgery?" Raymond widened his eyes, filled with doubt.
Massimo said, "That's right, he's versatile, capable of performing any surgery, occasionally even doing interventional surgery, and his level is higher than mine."
Oh my, occasionally dipping in, and even occasional work is world-class. What would his level be if he focused earnestly on this specialty?
Raymond was left speechless by Massimo's words. Massimo's interventional skills are world-class, yet now he's saying it's not as good as Professor Yang's. Although it's not surprising, Raymond himself is also a world-class neurosurgeon, yet his skills still don't match up to Professor Yang's.
"Separating the cervical spine will cause bone, muscle, and skin defects, right? Skin defects can be solved with flaps and grafts, but it looks like there's quite a lot missing. Muscle and bone loss might be harder to manage." A spinal surgery specialist at the back remarked.
Massimo said, "Don't worry. Don't you know what Professor Yang's Nobel Prize-winning research achievement is? The spatial orientation gene, or localized cloning technology. They've already cloned enough skin and muscle, and as for bone tissue, the 3D biological printing technology can handle it."
China is a magical country, always able to create miracles.
Raymond couldn't help but marvel; this is now his understanding of China.
For scoliosis correction, with the tacit cooperation of Song Zimo and Xu Zhiliang, Yang Ping proceeds with remarkable speed. Upon completing the scoliosis correction, the next surgery requires a position change, from the original prone to supine position, and anesthesia changes from local to intubated general anesthesia.
The latter part involves separating the front side of the thoracoabdominal region and separating the thoracoabdominal organs. Compared to the head-neck separation, this step is much simpler, though for others, it is still a pinnacle surgery.
Liang Fatty finally took the stage to show his skills. However, the live broadcast was turned off at this point, only playing operations in the surgical area without showing any backstage operations.
Everyone carefully turned over the two sisters, changing them to a supine position.
"How is the surgery going? Oh my, our heads are separated, genuinely separated."
"Yes, we are separated."
"Keep calm, next I will let you sleep, and separate your remaining parts. When you wake from sleep, the surgery will be done. Can we do that?" Liang Fatty said to the two sisters.
"No problem, how should we cooperate?"
"From now on, please stay quiet, without a word. Can you do that?"
"Of course we can!"