Chapter 1057: Lv99 Lord Boss! (3 extra releases for Alliance Hierarch Jing Wu Yi Jiu)
At that moment, Chen Cang looked at the situation inside the abdominal cavity, and the image in his eyes changed!
[Conjoined Twin Abdominal Cavity Separation Surgery: lv99, Alliance Hierarch level boss!]
Chen Cang was completely stunned!
Level 99 Alliance Hierarch level boss!
That's a bit too outrageous, right?
Chen Cang felt that this might be the most difficult surgery in abdominal operations, right?
Even a liver transplant wouldn't have such high difficulty.
Chen Cang's liver resection was masterful, and after hesitating for a moment, he decided to perform the surgery himself because he was very confident in handling the blood vessels within the liver.
Liver separation surgery didn't have such a specialized technique; it essentially involved cutting apart conjoined livers.
But when cutting, one must still be cautious about the blood vessels inside the liver, lest damage cause major loss.
Chen Cang was extremely proficient in the human circulatory system, and as his hands touched the liver, information came through.
[Adhering livers, be careful of the umbilical vein, the hepatic vein...and other vessels.]
The liver was yellow, not red.
This meant that the liver itself had no damage.
Chen Cang hesitated for a moment, and a line appeared over the liver in his eyes.
He realized he could clearly see the boundary between the two livers.
Instantly, Chen Cang became excited.
He found that the two infants' livers were actually different colors; with this, could he cut along that line?
Thinking this, Chen Cang's heart uncontrollably throbbed with excitement.
The surgery continued!
"Scalpel!" Chen Cang said, "Professor Hubert, help me hold the liver."
Following that, Chen Cang began cutting carefully.
The most troublesome part was dealing with the liver's blood vessels, especially since there was a major vessel between the two livers connected to the umbilical vein, requiring separation without damaging this major vessel!
With this, the difficulty increased!
At that point, those watching the surgery began to tense up, and Qin Yue was staring intently at the liver, not daring to breathe.
Only to see Chen Cang's scalpel move deeper and shallower, then continually retracting and changing angles.
Then Chen Cang said, "Hemostatic clamps!"
And just at that moment, an astonishing scene occurred!
Only to see Chen Cang gently exerting force with both hands, and the two livers suddenly separated.
However, there were adhesions between them, but...these were all major vessels within the liver.
Suddenly everyone exclaimed, "Amazing!"
"So impressive!"
"Such precise control over the vessels?"
"This...Doctor Chen is really amazing, isn't he?"
Indeed, not just them, at that moment in the surgery room, several directors were also watching this scene, somewhat astonished.
Jim Lawrence looked on incredulously.
He too could separate livers, but... definitely not as exquisitely as Chen Cang!
Yes, Chen Cang's liver separation was exceptionally fine, making just the right cuts, and most importantly, his control over the critical blood vessels was almost demanding!
Next, the handling of the major vessels.
Jim Lawrence began to deal with it, while Chen Cang couldn't manage.
Time ticked by second by second, and the entire liver separation took the team a full forty minutes.
That was with a group of experts involved.
After the liver had been separated, everyone seemed to be inspired by this brief success!
"Chen Cang, keep it up!"
"Doctor Chen, keep it up!"
At that moment, everyone watching the surgery in the exhibition hall was astonished by Chen Cang's refined operation.
If anyone doubted that surgery was an art at that time, they would definitely argue otherwise.
Because Chen Cang's performance was even more exquisite than art.
This was a person with an extremely high grasp of the blood vessels inside the liver.
In this procedure, damaging any one of those vessels could lead to endless troubles.
Yet, Chen Cang skillfully managed not to damage any major vessel.
These vessels were also the lifeblood of the liver; by preserving them, he protected the liver!
After the separation, Jim Lawrence and Hamilton were repairing liver vessels.
Chen Cang started to study the pancreas and the duodenum.
These two are practically a single entity; pulling one hair moves the whole body, and it was impossible to deal with one alone.
The pancreas was connected to the duodenum through the pancreatic ducts and bile ducts. How could they be safely separated?
That became the most difficult part of the surgery, and it could even be said: Once the pancreas and the pancreatic ducts were handled properly, the difficulty level of the entire surgery would drop to normal.
A level 99 lord boss, really not easy to mess with.
At this moment, the surgery had been going on for over two hours.
Chen Cang looked at the intestines, and decided to first free the intestines.
The two duodenums had twisted into a pretzel in the middle!
Moreover, the most important thing was that this pretzel knot couldn't be undone because the two duodenums were completely grown together.
Hubert saw this, his eyes widened in some helplessness and a lot of sadness.
Such adhesions weren't completely grown together but were fused together completely from the loose connective tissue and mesothelium of the two duodenums' serosa.
Seeing this, everyone in the operating room felt somewhat reluctant.
Separate?
Too difficult, too precise!
Using a robot was even less of an option, with no tactile feedback, it was easy to damage the intestines.
Preserve one?
Give it to whom?
Oli or Judy?
Oh!
Right, there was only one exposed pancreatic duct, who should get it?
Fairly, one for each?
You take the intestine, you take the pancreatic duct?
Or give up one, to preserve the other?
This was an ethical issue.
The development of medicine had never been separate from the development of ethics; they could even be considered parallel disciplines.
Everyone watching inside the exhibit hall seemed to come to a realization at this scene as well.
How should they choose?
If it were a cranial separation, the choice might not have been so difficult, as there would definitely be a death.
But not now; she wouldn't die, she would just live in pain.
What others ate, she couldn't.
She would need to live cautiously.
But really, was that fair?
Watching the two little girls, everyone's faces showed their pity.
And Hubert, as the grandfather, seeing this scene, felt agonizing heartache.
How should they choose?
On the operating table, there couldn't be too much hesitation.
Chen Cang looked down at the intestines, his hands carefully touching, feeling...
At that moment, Hubert said, "Dr. Chen, half for each!"
That remark suddenly brightened everyone's eyes.
Right!
Divide the duodenum, keep half for each.
This might be the toughest multiple-choice question.
Just then, Chen Cang suddenly shook his head, "No need, I can separate them!"
Chen Cang's voice wasn't loud, but it struck like thunder in everyone's minds!
What?
Separate?
Everyone stared at Chen Cang, their eyes filled with a mix of confusion, emotion, skepticism, and admiration...
But upon hearing this, Hubert was overjoyed, almost in disbelief, and carefully asked:
"Really?"
Chen Cang nodded, "I'll try, half for each is the worst choice anyway."