Chapter 2562: Cure-All

“If you receive a case and you’re not sure whether it can be admitted for surgery, first ask Teacher Cao for his opinion. Get some guidance and don’t speak carelessly.”

The young medical students listened and realized: tonight they thought heart transplant surgery was the most dangerous and highest level surgery in pediatric cardiology, but it seems not to be the case.

Understanding this is actually not difficult. When an item is broken, you replace it with a new one; even if it’s not the original part, as long as it somewhat matches, it can function without issues. If you keep repairing something that’s thoroughly broken, how high can the success rate really be? If it were a household appliance, you’d think about just throwing it away. This has always been a surgeon’s dilemma, seeing such organs really makes them want to discard and replace them, but the problem is where to get a new one to replace; there isn’t any, so they can only repair, repair, repair.

“Is the most difficult surgery Tetralogy of Fallot?” Wei Shangquan, always the boldest among the classmates, bravely sought advice.

“What did you say?” Duan Sanbao’s round eyes seemingly poked at his face in surprise.

This apparently was not a question a Guoxie’s academic prodigy should have asked. Just because the newspapers or TV shows mention congenital heart disease using Tetralogy of Fallot as an example, doesn’t mean it’s the most difficult congenital heart disease.

The accurate description of Tetralogy of Fallot should be that it is one of the common heart malformations in clinical practice.

Moreover, as for the same disease, it’s been emphasized repeatedly that there should be classification, and the severity among categories is quite different.

Wei Shangquan wiped his face, embarrassed for his classmates present; it was his lack of caution.

Dai Nanhui chuckled twice.

Pan Shihua sighed.

Xie Wanying was walking while looking at various promotional posters in the department’s corridor.

To understand a department without asking, absorbing effective information from the promotional bulletin board is most useful.

On the white wall next to the nurse station, there’s an introduction section for all department staff. The director’s surname is Lu. The head nurse’s surname is Zhang. Immortal Brother ranks second, with a grand presentation, the introduction writes that Immortal Brother is proficient in complete TGA transposition of great arteries, Taussig-Bing anomaly sub-pulmonary VSD being one of the right ventricular double outlet anomalies, arch coarctation, i.e., aortic arch coarctation, aortic arch malformations definitely not limited to aortic arch coarctation but also aortic arch interruption, etc., etc. Things like VSD, ASD, Tetralogy of Fallot are almost standard items for all pediatric cardiology bosses, listed in the introduction table. Finally, there’s an ellipsis to indicate the countless types of congenital heart diseases in children. As a boss in cardiology, one inevitably becomes a pediatric cardiac “cure-all.”

From the preliminary look at the diseases introduced by the above doctors, an interesting phenomenon can be found. What the public perceives as heart disease looks to be internal problems within the heart; but now it appears that some pediatric congenital heart diseases have nothing to do with the heart’s internal structure, but simply issues with the vessels entering and leaving the heart. Under the sea of numerous specialized diseases, Tetralogy of Fallot no longer monopolizes the scene.

From observing Student Xie’s gaze towards the introduction table, Student Wei felt ashamed to the point of blushing. He truly should go back and thoroughly read his textbooks. Speaking of which, many medical students, once they get to clinical practice, become so busy that they forget to read, almost handing the book back to the classroom teacher and relearning with a blank mind. This surely makes the learning slower and not as effective.