The younger the child is, the smaller the body is, and the less space the doctor has to operate. For open-view surgery on a newborn, the heart in the chest is so small that the doctor feels it is too big to operate with both hands, so most operations can only be done by the surgeon alone.
The first difficulty of the Norwood operation for surgeons is that it is very difficult for one person to complete such a difficult operation within the specified time. No wonder some people call this type of congenital heart disease surgery for newborns and children the pinnacle of cardiac surgery.
Classmates Lin Hao and Pan, who had never experienced it with their own eyes, stood on tiptoe to look at it.
The child was small, so the doctors and medical students watching could not surround him like they would an adult patient, and could only watch from the outside. Who could have allowed only two surgeons to stand on either side of the child's tiny body, and the left and right sides were completely surrounded. Lin Hao and his team began to feel the extreme horror of operating on a small patient.
We like to compare the size of a person's heart to the size of a person's fist. As you can imagine, when you open a child's chest, the heart is only the size of a newborn's hand. This is not the scariest and smallest thing. The scariest thing is the thin blood vessels. As I said before, this disease will make the child's aorta very thin.
This palliative surgery is not aimed at the inside of the heart, but at the small blood vessels.
Opening the chest, exposing the heart, and performing extracorporeal circulation are similar to other heart surgeries.
Ye Sujin, who was standing at the head of the operating bed, looked more solemn as the operation progressed.
It is definitely not a good thing if the heroic and dashing lady suddenly becomes quiet.
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Based on her past experience of accompanying her husband in many cardiac surgeries, Ye Sujin could feel that today's operation would not be easy, and it was expected to be more difficult than she and her son had imagined.
The son who performed the surgery was relatively stable for the time being and there was no panic.
In the eyes of others, the surgeon was pulling the sutures as smoothly as usual, appearing to be in a natural and relaxed state. The only assistant was also very skillful, holding a pair of scissors to assist at all times, with each movement being a click.
The electric knife was heating up with a hissing sound, and the suction tube in an assistant's hand was whirring. The progress was neither fast nor slow.
The nurse suddenly came over and wiped the sweat off the surgeon's forehead.
When Dr. Cheng Yuchen and others who were on standby saw this, they were suddenly shocked. It suddenly occurred to them that even Cao Zhao was sweating during the operation, which showed how difficult this operation was.
His son was on extracorporeal circulation, and Ye Sujin personally helped him watch the machine.
Cao Yong went outside to answer his father's call. Cao Yudong said that, but he was actually a little worried and called to ask about the operation.
Ye Sujin, who stayed behind, recalled what her husband had said: the most terrifying thing about this operation was that it required a lot of attention from the doctor.
The surgeon was sweating because the operation was too stressful and required too much attention from his eyes.
The child is too small, everything is small, the lesion is small, and it is very demanding on the eyes. This kind of eye strain is not related to the small surgical field mentioned before, but to the fact that the organs and tissues to be operated on are all small.
"Teacher Cao, how about I help you sew some?" Xie Wanying volunteered, seeing that Brother Fairy was a little tired.
Cao Zhao raised his head.
Ye Sujin and others saw that there was no sweat on her head, unlike the surgeon.
Logically speaking, it should be very tiring for her, the assistant, to be there to help and keep an eye on the whole process. Obviously, it seems that Xie didn't have to put much effort into this aspect.
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