When the operation began, not only did the atmosphere in the operating room suddenly become tense.
In the conference room outside the operating room, several televisions were broadcasting live simultaneously.
All the doctors opened their eyes wide, and followed the surgical vision of Xie Liping and Gao Li, practicing simulations in their minds.
Professor Wu Mengchao was also itching to do the surgery himself, and he wished he could pull the surgeon down and do the surgery himself.
Especially when Xie Liping reached the later stage of the operation and was anastomosing the vena cava, portal artery, hepatic artery and bile duct of the donor liver and the recipient, everyone's eyes were wide open.
At the same time, Professor Russell Clyde's explanation was also very thorough. He explained every anatomical position, the first step in the operation, and the reasons why it was done in a clear and explicit manner.
While Chen Qiu was listening to the explanation carefully, his mind was working rapidly.
But for a junior student like her, there were actually many things she didn't understand. Fortunately, the dean was her brother. At worst, she could ask for a videotape when she got home and ask Professor Wu to explain it to her again.
Although Chen Qiu always appears impatient with Chen Xia on the surface, she is actually very proud to have such a brother.
She enjoyed the best material life, and she also enjoyed the learning convenience brought by Chen Xia's backdoor. It was Chen Laoer who went to great lengths and used his connections in the department to give her the opportunity to become Professor Wu's apprentice.
All of this is not something that ordinary people can do.
If Chen Qiu no longer feels grateful to her elder brother, then she is truly an ungrateful person.
The most nervous people during the operation were Xie Liping and Gao Li. One of them was responsible for removing the liver, while the other was responsible for transplanting it, which required a very high level of technical skills from the surgeons.
The anesthesiologist Wang Zhiyi and the nurse Wan Lu who performed this operation both went to Margaret and Mayo for further studies together for two years. It can be said that Chen Xia had built a most combat-effective "team" for them in advance.
They even spared no expense and built this operating room in accordance with world-class standards, despite considerable pressure.
You have to know that these two operating rooms, all the equipment and decoration, cost a total of 250,000 US dollars, which is enough for other hospitals to build 20 new operating rooms.
The operation lasted for a full six hours. No one, whether it was the surgeon or the observing doctors, no matter if it was a young girl like Chen Qiu or an old man like Professor Wu, complained about the hardship.
Deputy Minister Zou of the Ministry of Health, President Ma of Zhijiang Medical University and other bigwigs were also waiting in the conference room and did not leave. Everyone was waiting.
For officials, this is the third living liver transplant in the world and the first in China. If the operation is successful and the patient survives, it will become the world's first successful liver transplant.
That’s really awesome. For Chinese people, this “first” is what they pursue.
For the 200 experts and professors from various countries present, who wouldn't want to be the first person in their country to perform an organ transplant? This is not only a matter of reputation, but also related to their economic interests.
Therefore, they don't want to miss any academic conferences or teaching surgeries related to new technologies.
Even if the operation fails today, it still means a lot to them.
The mistakes made by our predecessors can be avoided by future generations. This is the helplessness of empirical medicine. To put it bluntly, the progress of medicine is paid at the cost of human lives.
The operation lasted from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. When Xie Liping completed the docking of all the anastomotic ends of the liver and restored blood supply to the liver, the clinical operation was successful.
At this time, warm applause was heard in the operating room, mainly from Chinese doctors.
Both the leaders and employees of Yuezhou Hospital were screaming with excitement. They felt proud that their colleague had performed a miracle.
Xie Liping and Gao Li got off the operating table, their faces covered with sweat. The operation was over and no longer required strict sterility. Chen Xia patted their shoulders excitedly:
"Well done! Today's surgery shows that your two years of training have not been in vain. You are truly learning skills. Congratulations."
The success of the clinical operation is only the first step. After all, doctors in various countries are actually trying living liver transplantation, but they are doing it secretly and without public reporting.
Otherwise, how could there have only been two publicized cases of living-donor liver transplants in 1988? China alone had secretly conducted several experimental surgeries.
Doing it is one thing, and making it public is another. This is why so many doctors from various countries gathered here today. After all, this kind of public surgery is very rare.
Moreover, foreign doctors are not as optimistic as Chinese doctors. They believe that surgery is useless as long as the patient survives.
If the patient dies after the operation, then the operation is a complete failure.
Those who don't know much about the matter are already celebrating the success of the operation, but these experts and professors who know the matter understand that the key is what drugs to use to fight the rejection reaction.
It is also the focus of this public teaching operation.
After the operation, the patient was sent to the newly established ICU ward, where a medical team composed of doctors from Hong Kong and China was ready.
Originally, Chen Xia saw that the experts and professors from various countries, especially the senior professors, had been standing or sitting for most of the day, so he wanted to let them take a break and prepare for the second kidney transplant operation until the next day.
As a result, experts from various countries opposed it, feeling that they could still hold on a little longer.
The main reason is that time is too tight. These professor-level doctors are the backbone of various hospitals and it is impossible for them to leave the hospital for too long.
There is no problem with the surgeon. The surgeons for the kidney transplant are Dr. Pan Mingming and Dr. Lin Zijian from Margaret Hospital, and the instructor is Professor Christie Butz from Mayo.
Relatively speaking, kidney transplantation is less difficult than liver transplantation, so the operation also went smoothly.
It was already 7pm when it ended.
The conference room of Yuezhou Hospital was packed with people, and Zheng Haisheng gave a lecture on the pharmacology of various anti-rejection drugs on the podium.
Chen Xia also went on stage to give a speech in person, because neither Yuezhou Hospital nor Margaret Hospital had talents in this area and could not find a "puppet", so the boss had to go on stage himself.
However, the content he talked about was all related information and textbooks found in the Space Hospital Library, which was absolutely authoritative.
Chen Xia spoke of the economic and knowledge accumulation of the next few decades at once, leaving all these professional surgeons stunned.
How should cyclosporine, tacrolimus, Prograf, rapamycin, sirolimus, hormones, and anticoagulants and antilipids be used? Why are single medications not recommended? What are the advantages and disadvantages of dual or triple therapy?
The famous doctors in the audience were all like interns, concentrating on taking notes seriously.
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