This means that the liver source for bed 18 has been found, and the surgery will be done in the next two days.
The reason why there is no organ transplantation in the Second General Surgery Department is that there are very few intestinal transplantation operations in China. The department focuses on economic benefits. If there are few patients, we will not do this business if we cannot break even. There are requirements for organ transplantation operations. At least, we need to establish relevant isolation wards in the department like the hepatobiliary surgery department and train specialized technicians. If there are not many such patients, it is equivalent to wasting hospital beds.
Liver transplantation is different. There is a market demand for it, and it has always been one of the top two categories of organ transplantation.
There are news reports that hospital leaders are considering setting up an organ transplant center to handle organ transplants in all departments. However, at this stage, the development of domestic organ transplants is limited. Many regulations are not sound, and there are not enough donor organs. For example, only more than 200 liver transplants are performed nationwide each year. The National Association of Liver Transplants can only perform 20 to 30 liver transplants per year at most.
It can be said that Xie Wanying knew that it was extremely lucky for any medical student who wanted to study to encounter a liver transplant case when she first arrived.
It is obvious that the laparoscopic surgical technology that the Second Department of General Surgery attaches great importance to is not the focus of the future development of hepatobiliary surgery.
Laparoscopy can only perform limited liver surgery. Many of the liver disease patients who come to the top three hospitals for treatment are critically ill and cannot undergo laparoscopy. They can only undergo open surgery and use artificial livers to treat liver failure. In the end, the only way to save the lives of these patients is liver transplantation.
It is said that the hepatobiliary surgery department has few interns and trainees who can learn liver transplantation, and the main force is interns. Most of the interns are regular doctors from other hospitals, which once again shows the high threshold for learning organ transplantation here.
There is a special organ transplantation team. In the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery of the National Association, there is an internal team dedicated to organ transplantation. With a small number of cases per year, the number of people in this team is not large, and it is just a trial run. Specifically, it is led by Deputy Director Xue, the chief physician of the department, and the members below are mainly the second group of doctors in the department led by Tao Zhijie.
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In addition to the surgeon's skills, the most critical point in liver transplant surgery is the availability of a liver source.
Liver sources in China have always been in short supply. Liver sources can actually be living livers, with the patient's relatives donating part of their liver to the patient. If the relatives do not donate, the patient can only wait for the organ donor to donate after brain death. The latter can only wait in a long queue. This further shows that liver sources are as scarce as gold and diamonds.
"When you go to get the liver source, you must put safety first." Tao Zhijie always reminds the doctors in the team, "Don't worry. If there is a car accident, the liver source will be gone and the patient's life will be gone. The worst thing is that your own life is more important to me and the hospital."
"Yes." Qiu Ruiyun agreed.
It can be seen that the doctor who went to obtain the liver had already confirmed that it was him.
"You designate a new person to go with you." Tao Zhijie gave him a choice.
"Can't both newcomers go with me?" Qiu Ruiyun took the opportunity to make a joke.
"Of course not." Tao Zhijie smiled back at him.
"Xie Wanying."
Being called by Doctor Qiu, Xie Wanying immediately put down her chopsticks and replied, "Yes."
"Eat, eat." The others noticed that she was very focused on eating.
Xie Wanying chewed and swallowed slowly. Because she was concentrating on eating, her eating speed was not slow.
"Xiao Song will go into the operating room when the time comes." Tao Zhijie continued to arrange for the newcomers to come on stage.
Song Xuelin nodded.
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