Chapter 2552: The Real Test Is Here

The extraordinary scene of operation appeared in everyone’s field of vision like a movie. Everyone was amazed, the Chief Surgeon Immortal’s hand speed was comparable to a grinder, no wonder he wasn’t afraid to start the operation after the donor heart arrived. The Boss became an immortal with extraordinary confidence.

Watching the Immortal Brother’s hands in surgery, as light as swallows in flight, Xie Wanying thought of Senior Cao: The Cao Family clearly has an innate excellent touch.

Just think about it, handling a cutting device requires extreme speed and precision, it’s impossible without top-notch dexterity. At this moment, it really doesn’t have much to do with how smart your brain is.

Neurosurgery that Senior Cao is engaged in, and cardiothoracic surgery by Second Brother Cao, these two major surgical specialties have exceptionally high demands for speed and accuracy that must be met. It’s natural for the Cao Family to shine brightly in this peak surgical field.

Once again, everyone focused: As the Chief Surgeon made an incision, it could go as deep as he wanted or as shallow as he needed. A single line could create multiple points of different depths, sliding smoothly like a skate on ice, without any pauses needing adjustment.

This technique, light and ethereal as a fantasy, made people feel like they were dreaming.

Not only Student Xie, but all the medical students in the operating room were once again mesmerized by this immortal-like man: They so wanted to know when, as rookies, they could become like their teacher and fly up to become immortals. They could only continue to work hard.

The surgery proceeded in an orderly manner.

“They’re here, they’re here.” A fellow student near the operating room door excitedly whispered as they saw the runners in the hallway.

Thud, thud, thud, Duan Sanbao and Pan Shihua both ran into the operating room at a sprinting speed. They didn’t dare to take a breath, hurrying to place the organ transplant box on the prepared instrument table, for the Chief Surgeon to examine.

The lid of the box was opened, and everyone swept eyes over the donor heart that had been brought from a thousand miles away: It seemed fine.

“The donor is a fourteen-year-old male, weighing 76 pounds, which is considered normal weight. The heart is predicted to be about 180 grams. Now it looks like this heart is approximately 190 grams, slightly larger than expected but still within a normal range,” Doctor Cheng Yuchen recited the donor’s medical records.

Now we need to reassess the recipient’s condition. Zhu Xing’s heart size is crucial. Zhu Xing weighs 60 pounds, and for a normal healthy peer’s heart, it’s about 130 grams. Due to Zhu Xing’s illness, his myocardium has expanded, and the pericardial cavity has expanded more than twice that of his peers, which seems sufficient to accommodate the 190-gram heart.

In fact, before the surgery, contact was made with the donor’s attending physician team. The examination results of both the recipient’s and donor’s hearts were available, giving the transplant doctors an approximate estimate of suitability before daring to accept.

Now that the donor heart has arrived in the operating room, and the transplant doctor has witnessed it in person, it can finally be settled.

There’s no issue with the size ratio of the heart for the donor and recipient. The medical students sighed softly in relief, but only the expressions of the chief surgeon and the doctors remained tense.

In pediatric heart transplant surgery, experienced doctors know that the most challenging aspect is not the donor-recipient heart size ratio, but the vascular connection.

The heart, unlike the liver, is a large pump that never stops beating, pumping blood several times a minute.

Even if the donor heart, much older than the recipient, can fit properly within the recipient’s pericardial cavity, its myocardial strength will definitely be much stronger than the recipient’s original heart. This will pose a big question of whether the recipient’s blood vessels can withstand the resulting increased blood flow pulse.