Xie Wanying said: "We analyze these to understand the function of each part of the patient's brain and make good pre- and post-operative assessments."
This is to tell Zeng's mother not to think too much. Doctors have no time and no interest in reading your bad brain. Doctors have a lot of work to do, all of which revolve around the patient.
Zeng's mother herself said that she was afraid that the patient would suffer a lot of sequelae after waking up from a vegetative state. Monitoring the patient's brain function activities before surgery is helpful for judging the postoperative situation. The vegetative state awakening surgery is only for stimulation, not for tumor removal, and the scalpel will not damage healthy brain tissue. Therefore, the sequelae after waking up from a vegetative state mainly come from the brain function damage that existed before the operation, which can be examined before the operation.
After the examination results came out, the doctors believed that the patient's brain functions were expected to remain relatively intact after waking up. In short, the doctors predicted that the patient's limb function, language function, memory function, etc., would not have major problems after the operation. In this way, it is very meaningful to perform this operation on the patient, and the family members can be relieved to try to let the patient have the operation.
Mother Zeng didn't expect this result. She collapsed and sat in the chair without moving.
Mother Wang glared at the in-law with red eyes: "After my daughter gets better, you can divorce her, and the child will be ours."
"You wish." Zeng's mother immediately objected.
"Let's go to court and see if it's your fault or your family's fault. The doctor has all the evidence here."
The doctors quickly prepared to perform surgery on the patient.
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The expert from the capital will leave tomorrow. Dr. Tang and his team followed their plan and operated on the patient overnight while the expert was still there to help.
This type of brain stimulation is similar to previous epilepsy surgery but without the risks. Epilepsy surgery requires electrical destruction of the lesion, but this type of surgery does not require this.
In terms of positioning, there are experts from the capital, and a group of high-IQ people negotiate to make the surgical positioning more accurate. Generally speaking, stimulating the thalamus of vegetative patients is a routine surgical approach. According to today's examination results, several other important network nodes other than the thalamus will be stimulated. Electrical stimulation is to activate certain parts of the brain's "circuit network" and reactivate dormant neuronal cells due to some special reasons.
Neurosurgery is always a long process, and the operation was completed in the early morning of the next day.
Zeng Wanning, who claimed to have finished his night shift, came to visit his sister-in-law but still did not believe that the operation would be successful. The success rate of vegetative surgery cases at home and abroad is very low. The specific reason is as Xie and Dr. Charlie had discussed earlier, in this era, patients with minimal consciousness have not yet been accurately separated from vegetative patients.
After arriving at the ward, Zeng Wanning discovered that his sister-in-law looked at people differently. She could even call her mother, Wang, "Mom". These signs indicated that the operation was successful. The worst part was that his mother was said to have boasted that the whole family would perform a handstand for others: This!
The doctors didn’t care what happened to the Zeng family afterwards. They only cared about curing the patients.
After examining this case, Xie Wanying reflected that different brain area activity may symbolize different natures of things. To know where her "are you okay?" comes from, she may hope that someone will give her an fMRI test the next time she has an attack and see the results.
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