Chapter 2553: Patting Teacher’s Head

The issue fundamentally limits the suitability of adult hearts being placed into young child recipients, differing entirely from liver transplantation. Student Xie’s assertion about technical limitations is exemplified again here.

For example, when the donor heart is placed into the recipient, the donor’s large blood vessels are thicker than those of the recipient, especially when the large diameter donor’s arteries meet the recipient’s small diameter arteries. It’s not simply about a large diameter rubber tube being forcibly stitched to a small diameter rubber segment.

One should think about how the large diameter rubber tube is connected to a pump multiple times more powerful than the original, thus becoming a small pipe forced to link with a high-pressure water gun. Surely, this small blood vessel fears being burst by high-volume blood flow at any moment.

Where might the weakest bursting point occur? Without a doubt, at the anastomosis where the doctor stitches the large and small blood vessels together. So, it’s now clear why previously there was concern about post-operative leakage at the anastomosis, right?

Reducing the likelihood of bursting at the fragile stitched anastomosis is one method, which has been discussed before. Now, given the recipient’s capacity to accommodate the donor heart, using the bicaval method would certainly be better than the Whole Heart Method.

However, the Chief Surgeon said: Prepare for Whole Heart Anastomosis.

First Assistant Doctor Cheng Yuchen was momentarily confused: Why?

Upon seeing First Assistant’s puzzled expression, Third Assistant Student Wei and other medical students observing the surgery were even more baffled. Lacking experience, they couldn’t understand what issue the surgery was encountering.

Don’t hastily judge Doctor Cheng and Student Wei and the others as lacking intelligence. Returning Duan Sanbao and Pan Shihua stood aside, contemplating the Chief Surgeon’s words just as hard.

Unable to think of any reason, Student Pan and Student Wei habitually sought answers in Student Xie’s gaze.

Not disappointing them, Student Xie uttered the most persistent remark ever: "Because by doing so, the surgery becomes more beautiful and perfect."

What! If Doctor Cheng Yuchen weren’t wearing a mask, her astonished open mouth could’ve expressed disagreement with the person.

Isn’t this absurd? To take great risks just to make the surgery more beautiful and perfect?

Student Xie, speaking recklessly like this, be prepared for criticism.

After a few seconds of silence, everyone didn’t see any ire from the Chief Surgeon. Doctor Cheng Yuchen was the first frightened into closing her mouth.

Everyone was beyond shocked; the Chief Surgeon’s silence was enough to affirm that Student Xie was correct.

How? Thinking the Boss’s pursuit of a perfect, beautiful surgery would recklessly ignore patient safety for great risk? They’re the Boss with technical confidence.

This donor heart is so beautifully intact; why connect its atrium to the flawed recipient’s atrium? The recipient inherently suffers from cardiomyopathy; why leave the diseased myocardium to allow remnants of illness to linger in the patient, waiting for a chance to wreak havoc? A surgeon, wielding a scalpel in the operation room to cut away disease, will seize any opportunity to cut as thoroughly as possible.

The history of all classic surgical operations showcases surgeons’ relentless pursuit of perfection, and one could say, the greater the surgeon, the more prevalent this excellent "flaw."

Cao Zhao ignored others’ astonishment; under his surgical magnifying lens, his eyes reflected two small whirlpools pondering: Am I once again kept in the dark by this group?

(Guoxie Members: Yes, patting the teacher’s head is Student Xie’s specialty.)