Chapter 220: Dangerous Cerebral Herniation, Detecting Bleeding Points through Hematoma_3
Director Wen was anxiously watching from the side.
So many chief physicians and associate chief physicians made up the surgical team, which was grand, but the others really could not match the power.
At most, they could only cooperate with the anesthesiologist to stabilize the patient's vital signs.
The main surgical effort was solely on Wu Baihe.
"Dr. Zhou, do you have confidence?"
Wu Baihe stopped the surgery and turned to ask Zhou Can, who had long wanted to volunteer, under the operating table.
Senior doctors usually ask, do you have confidence? What are your chances?
Instead of asking like family members, can the disease be cured? How many days will it take? It can definitely be saved, right?
Doctors are people who have performed surgeries themselves and understand the hardships and uncertainties involved.
Family members and patients do not understand this.
They insist on forcing doctors to give a definite answer, which is impossible.
"Yes!"
Zhou Can's answer was brief and powerful.
"Come on, try to see if you can find the bleeding point! When I searched with the endoscopic probe just now, I believe you also watched, those areas we passed through can basically be ruled out. Be very careful not to damage the brainstem and the important blood vessels and nerves under the arachnoid."
Wu Baihe gave up the chief surgeon's position but did not step down from the operating table.
Instead, he stood by and watched.
Zhou Can secretly rejoiced that the Hemostasis Skill had just recently been upgraded to Level 5, which gave him the courage to challenge the hemostasis task in this surgery.
He had been watching from under the table just now.
If he guessed correctly, the bleeding site is likely to be a cerebral vascular aneurysm or malformed vessels rupture.
For a larger aneurysm, with Wu Baihe's extensive surgical experience, he surely would have found it already.
For a small aneurysm, the bleeding amount should not be this large.
That leaves only one possibility, the cause of bleeding is malformed vascular rupture.
He carefully manipulated the endoscopic probe inside the cranial cavity.
Unlike Wu Baihe's exploration method, Zhou Can deliberately did not suck away the newfound bleeding inside the skull cavity. Letting it pool into a puddle of blood.
"Can this even work? Why does it feel like he's just playing?"
"Letting an intern do this seems a bit irresponsible."
"It's really nerve-racking to watch; pity my endoscopic skills aren't up to it, otherwise, if I took over, I might be able to find the bleeding point."
Many doctors on the scene were getting nervous.
They believe allowing Zhou Can to do this surgery is simply absurd.
Standing on the operating table, Zhou Can was not affected by the doubts from others and focused intently on the endoscopic screen. His endoscope subtly changing angles, moving slowly.
He didn't know what capabilities other doctors had once their Hemostasis Skill reached Level 5.
Anyway, as soon as his Hemostasis Skill reached Level 4, he could trace the rough location of the bleeding point through the direction of blood flow and the ripples on the surface of the fluid.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
"The bleeding point is hidden inside the right cerebral hemisphere, no wonder Wu Baihe couldn't find it."
This position is easily overlooked.
Even if the probe reaches the vicinity, it is easy to move away quickly.
"Oh, oh, why is the endoscope moving in there? Dangerous!"
"Stop quickly!"
Several chief physicians got half scared to death when they saw Zhou Can's operation.
Zhou Can didn't stop, instead he confidently probed into the target location inside the cerebral hemisphere.
This process of operation was actually very challenging.
Fortunately, his grasping technique and passing technique had both reached Level 4. Moving some brain tissue aside to create favorable space for the endoscopic search was just in time to be useful.
[Grasping Skill Experience Points +1.]
[First successful grasp of important brain tissue, reward Grasping Skill Experience Points +100.]
[Passing Skill Experience Points +1.]
[First successful transfer and pull of important brain tissue, reward Passing Skill Experience Points +100.]
Each high difficulty surgery must be heavily rewarded.
Zhou Can was overjoyed.
An even greater surprise was yet to come, the probe captured an exhilarating image.
"The bleeding point has been found! It's indeed malformed vascular rupture."
As soon as Zhou Can's probe reached the bleeding site, he saw torrents of fresh blood gushing out, the blood splashing onto the probe.
The amount of bleeding was considerable.
It's definitely an arterial break.
And not just a small arterial vessel, but a relatively thick cerebral artery.
No wonder the patient couldn't stop the bleeding with their own clotting ability.
"Good! This is great! Finding the bleeding point means there's a much greater hope of saving the patient!"
Wu Baihe was extremely excited.
Those doctors who had doubted Zhou Can shut their mouths, feeling ashamed of their previous rash remarks.
No one expected Zhou Can could actually locate the intracranial bleeding vessel.
It took just nine minutes.
At this moment, some even felt that if Zhou Can had been allowed to take over from Wu Baihe as the chief surgeon earlier, it might have been more beneficial for the patient.