Chapter 147
The anesthesia can last over four hours.
With such a lengthy duration and given his surgical speed, it was entirely sufficient to reattach a severed finger.
Tian Tian finally prepared the anesthetic and handed it to Zhou Can.
After successfully administering anesthesia to the patient’s left hand, he could now proceed to the next step.
Wound cleaning.
This medical skill was currently at a lower level for a resident doctor.
The progress was a bit slow, but there was no helping it.
A patient could bring him only one to two Experience Points for the Wound Cleaning Skill. And not every patient required wound cleaning.
The patient’s severed finger was likely a cut from a sharp instrument, the wound edges were neat.
This was advantageous for the surgery.
It’s worth mentioning that cleaning a severed finger is not as casual as one might imagine. In formal hospitals like theirs, they often choose to do it under a microscope. This is to prevent cutting away blood vessels and nerves retracted into the subcutaneous tissues.
Wound cleaning not only involves cleaning the residual stump of the severed finger, but also the detached part.
The most troublesome task is cleaning the bone.
Even with wounds like these that are fairly neat, about 0.5cm of the bone ends must be cleaned off to ensure successful bone joining.
After cleaning was done, it was time to test his skills.
Bone connection.
Zhou Can was preparing to use a stainless steel pin to connect the marrow cavity of the severed finger, taking into account the patient’s situation.
Dr. Xu came over, standing by to supervise and instruct.
This was because he feared Zhou Can would mess it up.
“Steel pin for reattaching the phalanges of the severed finger!”
Zhou Can was nearly frantic.
Tian Tian was as dense as a pig—except for the standard surgical instruments and consumables that didn’t need much reminding, for everything else she was as unresponsive as wood.
She needed reminders to prepare things on the spot.
This seriously affected the progress of the surgery.
In the operating room, probably only Dr. Xu had the right to scold her.
Zhou Can had no such authority.
In terms of seniority, she had been there longer than Zhou Can.
“What size of pin?”
Tian Tian asked.
“1mm.”
Zhou Can really wanted to call her an idiot. Such a question should not even need to be asked.
If Qiao Yu were assisting him as the surgical nurse, everything would have been ready a long time ago.
He really didn’t understand where Tian Tian’s mind was.
If she wasn’t interested in surgeries, she could step down from being a standby surgical nurse.
By the time she finally had the pin ready, Zhou Can was already very impatient. Even Dr. Xu standing beside could hardly bear to watch.
“Tian Tian, you need to prepare in advance next time; otherwise, it seriously delays the surgery,” Dr. Xu said.
Given the patient was present, this was already keeping face for her.
“Alright, alright! The main issue was that this patient was the first to enter the operating room, so the preparation wasn’t sufficient,” she replied, promising improvement while likely to repeat the same mistake next time.
Zhou Can took the steel pin and began the delicate task of fixing the medullary cavities of both ends of the severed finger.
He had watched Dr. Xu perform this operation many times, and Dr. Xu had shared all the tricks of the trade, skills, and precautions with him.
Ordinarily, such an orthopedic skill would only be learned during a rotation in orthopedics.
Thus, having a great and capable teacher truly could increase the efficiency of training manifold.
He proceeded with caution, step by step, finally managing to secure the severed finger to the residual part of the digit.
After checking to confirm everything was in order.
[Congratulations, you have acquired the Bone Joining Skill. Applicable for connecting bones after a fracture.]
[Bone Joining Skill, current Experience Points, level 1/10. Internship failing grade level.]
He felt a wave of frustration—why so low?
Fortunately, the patient’s reconnected phalangeal bone of the finger was a success.