"Xiao Lu, you can go back and rest. Just turn off the phone. You have been tired from running around all day today. The most important thing you need to do now is to rest."

After leaving the operating room, Cao Mengda patted the somewhat lonely Lu Cheng and explained.

Cao Mengda knew very well that Lu Cheng might be a little disappointed now, because he, like Lu Cheng, was very sure that even if Professor Snow and Professor Oates took over the operation, they might not be able to do a better job than Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng felt that he was clearly capable of saving the patient's leg, but he was called off the stage midway and watched helplessly as the patient was amputated or even died. This was something very difficult to accept.

However, no matter which country's medical practice, there is one most basic right of patients and their families, which is the so-called right to informed consent and choice. Even if the patient's family gives up saving lives that can be saved, the patient's family themselves

The right to choose is still higher than the doctor’s obsession.

Lu Cheng shook his head helplessly and said, "It's okay, Professor Cao. I just feel it's a pity. There's nothing I can't accept."

"Just last month, when I was in Chang City, I was on the operating table with Qin Yuanwu, who was hospitalized in our department. The person lying on the operating table was his nephew. He rushed to the hospital immediately.

Arriving at the rescue scene."

"But after he got off the operating table, the person who chopped him into serious injuries was his biological brother."

"This kind of thing can happen, so why can't it happen? It can only be said that sometimes reality is more bloody and cruel than TV dramas and novels."

"Teacher Cao, you will have surgery later, right? Do you want me to go with you to help?" Lu Cheng didn't get much rest today, but Cao Mengda still didn't get much rest all day.

He is even older than me. If he can help a little, everyone can get off work early together, which can be regarded as a kind of moral character of respecting the elderly and caring for the young.

Cao Mengda said: "I'm used to it. If you don't come to Magic City, why don't we do the same thing if we encounter something like this? When manpower is limited, we can do as much as we can. Xiaohe came to the operating room, and he

Just help me, just go back and rest first."

"Don't take it to heart today. Although we often say that the medical environment was better in the past, there is a saying from ancient times that the law should not be taught lightly, the Tao should not be sold cheaply, the teacher should not follow the way, and the doctor should not hold the door open.

"

"The words passed down by the ancients must be reasonable."

"Xiaobo, you go to operating room 17 first and see how the patient is doing now. I'll be right over."

Although Cao Mengda was asked to stop the operation, it does not mean that he can rest. The current human resources are seriously insufficient, and one person can be broken into several people. There are many operating rooms open now, just waiting for the doctor.

Go and deal with it. So when Cao Mengda got out of the operating room, someone came over and told him to go to Room 17 to start a new operation.

Chen Xiaobo said "Hello".

Lu Cheng said goodbye to Cao Mengda and walked downstairs.

Then I walked and watched VX. After Fang Nixin sent the previous message, she didn’t reply. She was probably on the operating table and never got off the stage.

Cao Xiaohe just sent a message to Lu Cheng, which probably meant asking him to go get some rest early.

However, Cao Xiaohe put it more straightforwardly: "We as doctors should never shamelessly ask for help for other people. We are all adults and normal people. We each make our own choices and

Just behave responsibly.”

"Life in this world is getting better and better, but the number of suicides has not decreased. What does this mean? Some people want to die on their own. No matter what the objective factors are, it will not help!"

"I'll go on stage with my uncle later."

Lu Cheng returned to the hotel, turned off his phone, and fell into a deep sleep.

From getting off the plane to participating in first aid and surgery, Lu Cheng expended a lot of energy.

So basically once I got into bed, I didn't even think about waking up.

…

It only took twenty minutes for Professor Snow and Professor Oates to take over the operation when they discovered something was not right about the operation.

Then he quickly went out and communicated with the patient's family. Snow said very calmly: "The patient's current condition is too complicated. Because he has a ruptured artery, he did not have any imaging examinations. Professor Snow and I did not

Any information can help determine where his current blood clot is."

"Now there are multiple open fractures, and we are unable to perform limb-sparing surgery on him."

"For the sake of his life, I suggest high amputation of the right lower limb. This is the safest way for him. Life is the most precious. I hope you can make a decision as soon as possible. Otherwise, if it is too late, your life may be in danger.

"

Hearing this, the patient's wife suddenly changed her face and replied in broken English: "Isn't my husband's surgery just now going on smoothly? Why can't he save his leg all of a sudden? Did the previous doctor do the surgery?

Did you do something wrong? Or did you make the situation more complicated?"

Although Professor Snow was somewhat arrogant, he was not someone who would frame the case. He said: "No, no, no, this is a limitation of the condition and has nothing to do with the previous surgery."

"He has a ruptured artery, which is not suitable for angiography. Even if MRA is performed, it will not be visualized because the artery is not full. In addition, traumatic stress thrombosis has occurred, and there is no way to evaluate the thrombosis in this patient."

location."

"The previous doctors have tried their best to remove most of the blood clots, but there are still a small number of blood clots that have not been removed. And these thrombus plugs cannot be removed."

When he said this, Professor Snow also felt that the Chinese doctor before was really cruel. Without the assistance of any imaging data, he actually removed so many blood clots blindly. This made him quite embarrassed.

A skill that I admire.

So Snow added: "The surgery he performed was already the most perfect and the best he could do. Even the top vascular surgeon in the world can only do what he is like. He has done his best.

He tried his best to perform limb salvage surgery, but the patient's condition was very bad, even after trying his best."

"I still can only say sorry to you. Now Professor Otters is ready to perform amputation surgery at any time. I hope you can make a decision as soon as possible!"

"I'm very sorry." Snow shook his head helplessly and explained to them the special nature of his current condition with great certainty.

It's not that he doesn't want to save it, but that the situation doesn't allow it. This is an objective fact and does not change with subjective will. If it can't be saved, it can't be saved. No one can save it.

Professor Snow would not believe that the previous surgeon could break this barrier and create miracles.

When the middle-aged woman had something to say, it might be about her son. The old man seemed to have immediately understood the difference between Professor Snow's statement and Cao Mengda's approach.

If there is really nothing that can be done as Professor Snow said, then Cao Mengda will definitely come out to communicate with them. However, Cao Mengda did not come out of the operating room for such a long time, which proves that they may have thought of other things.

method, and it is being done.

However, the professors Snow and Otes he invited interrupted Cao Mengda's operation and were forced to step down.

He immediately said: "Can you wait a moment and we will get back to you later?"

"You should also know that my son is a very good athlete, and these legs have a very different meaning to him. He also needs the help of these legs in his career."

"We need to think carefully, and the time will not be particularly long. It will only take half an hour at most. Professor Snow, can you give us half an hour?"

Snow nodded and said: "That's half an hour at most. We can't delay it any longer. If it exceeds this time and the patient's life is in danger, then there's nothing I can do about it. His death was caused by your hesitation."

.”

Snow spoke very bluntly, and then walked into the operating room again, looking back and muttering: "Today is really not a good day. Such a bad thing happened to me. I must have forgotten to pray when I went out in the morning."

When Professor Snow turned around, the old man immediately contacted the dean of the Ninth Academy, hoping that the dean could help contact Professor Cao Mengda so that he could have a conversation with Professor Cao Mengda.

However, Cao Mengda was already on the operating table in Room 17 at the moment.

Not to mention it was a call from an outsider, even if it was a call from the dean, Cao Mengda did not let the traveling nurse choose to answer it.

When the deputy dean called for the fourth time, the circulating nurse hesitated and asked: "Professor Cao, dean Hu has already called for the fourth time, are you still not answering? There may be something very important."

"I won't answer! Even if it's a call from the general manager, which means I'm on the operating table, I won't answer anyone else's personal call."

"Turn on Do Not Disturb mode!"

"Xiaohe, Xiaobo, let's continue. This patient's blood vessels must be sutured as soon as possible, and then an external fixator can be installed." Cao Mengda ordered very patiently.

"Xiaobo, please draw the hook at a more inclined angle."

…

Ten minutes later.

Ding Yuanyi returned to operating room 17, stepped on the automatic door of the operating room, and very carefully came to the back of Professor Cao Mengda, who was concentrating on the operation.

He asked very politely: "Professor Cao, is it convenient now? The patient you operated on before is a very good friend of mine. The old man of the Xu family is my father's comrade-in-arms and a close friend for so many years. I am also watching him."

When I grow up, he specifically asked me to apologize to you, and I just hope you can say a few words to him."

"Just a few words!"

Ding Yuanyi's attitude at this time has become very gentle compared to before.

In fact, if Mr. Xu hadn't begged him, he really wouldn't have wanted to come to Cao Mengda. As a surgeon, he actually knew how much of an insult it was to the surgeon to be replaced midway.

It's just that there is no other way. Mr. Xu just hopes to say a few words to Cao Mengda again, and he can only say a few words with his old face!

Cao Mengda still looked back at Ding Yuanyi and said very calmly: "Dr. Ding, I'm very sorry. I'm undergoing surgery and I really don't have time to see anyone. If you have an orthopedic surgery consultation, please call the general on-duty or call directly.

Our department will make arrangements for the phone number of the general inpatient department of orthopedics."

Ding Yuanyi encountered a soft nail, but he did not give up. He also inquired carefully in the previous operating room and found out that the person who performed vascular surgery before was an acquaintance of Cao Mengda.

The person Ding Yuanyi was looking for at this moment was actually the doctor who performed thrombectomy on Xu Shixiong before.

Ding Yuanyi said: "I'm sorry, Professor Cao, Mr. Xu really asked me to apologize to you very sincerely on his behalf. He also loves his son very much, so he did some stupid things."

"His son is on the operating table now, and there is a risk of amputation at any time. I hope you, Professor Cao, will not argue with Mr. Xu. Mr. Xu will apologize to you in person later."

"Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. There is no need to beat people to death just because of one mistake, right? Professor Cao, I hope you will."

When Cao Mengda heard this, he refused very calmly: "Dr. Ding, for me, the life of the patient I am currently operating on is also supreme."
To be continued...