Most importantly, it does not require splitting the sternum or cutting off the ribs, and causes little damage to the bones and the human body, all of which are advantages. It can be called a minimally invasive surgery.

However, this type of incision is mostly used in pediatrics, and the proportion of adults is very low. This is because the chest of adults is large, and the heart is very deep when entering from the right side. It is difficult for doctors to see deep places and operate. These restrictions make obese patients and tall and strong male patients not suitable for this surgical method. Thin adult male and female patients can try it.

The development of medical doctors' skills is not achieved overnight, but gradually progresses. In the past, this type of incision surgery was only performed on children under ten years old. Later, it gradually developed to eighteen years old, and now some hospitals dare to use it on adults mentioned above. On the one hand, the expansion of the age and physique of patients is suitable for the group. On the other hand, the incisions for doctors to perform this type of surgery have expanded from simple heart surgery to some complex heart surgery.

Since right-sided incision surgery is more difficult than median sternotomy surgery, doctors who can perform this type of incision surgery must be more technically advanced. Not every cardiac surgeon can perform right-sided incision surgery.

Specifically, how difficult is this surgery? A well-known heart specialist hospital like Guozhi once reported that a doctor suggested that right-side incision surgery is not good, saying that right-side incision surgery will cause scoliosis in children.

What is the cause of this problem? Theoretically, if the ribs are not cut and the surgery is only performed through the muscles between the ribs, without damaging the spine, it is impossible to cause problems with the spine.

There is only one possibility. Due to difficulties encountered during the operation, the operation time was extended and the surgeon was forced to expose the surgical field to the maximum extent. This caused the surgeon to pull the muscles when entering from the right side, which involved the spine and dislocated the small joints related to the patient's spine. This is bound to cause postoperative complications. In the final analysis, it is not that this operation has disadvantages, but that the surgeon's skills are not good enough. During the operation, the surgeon must control the occurrence of complications and complete the operation smoothly in this limited surgical field. It is conceivable that this is a test of the surgeon's "eyesight" during the operation.

From the above examples, we can see that this type of surgery is so difficult that some specialist doctors in Guozhi cannot do it well, so they complain that this surgery is not good and advise their colleagues not to do it, and instead do a lower sternal incision, which is also called minimally invasive cosmetic surgery. Of course, many doctors in Guozhi continue to do right-side incision surgery and have no intention of giving up.

In Seoul Children's Hospital, doctors who can perform right-side incision surgery are a minority. The reason why Brother Shenxian is called the new pillar of pediatric cardiac surgery is that although Brother Shenxian rarely performs heart transplants (it is said that he does not like to compete with others for donors), he is a master in right-side incision surgery. For a 16-year-old patient like this, it is a more difficult right-side incision surgery. Brother Shenxian will do it without much consideration. The family members also asked around and brought their children to Brother Shenxian to ask for this kind of surgery.

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At this point, Xie Wanying and her classmates were quite curious about which instructor the Immortal Brother studied under. After completing the ward rounds today, they found that Director Lu was not good at right-side incision surgery.

Did the Fairy Brother learn everything by himself?