godfather of surgery

Chapter 1030: A Minor Surgery

  In the afternoon, Yang Ping conducted routine ward rounds and walked around the main ward. He then went to the ICU to see Aisha. The little girl's vital signs were stable after the operation.

Brian was also allowed to enter the ICU for the first post-operative visit. Seeing that Elsa was awake and her vital signs were normal, he couldn't help but get excited again and was full of admiration for Yang Ping's medical skills.

Brian also had an idea. He wanted to donate his Nobel Prize money to Sanbo Hospital. The money had been kept in the bank and had been intended to be used to treat his granddaughter's illness, but it had never been spent. Now Brian wanted to use the money to donate to Sanbo Hospital to conduct special research on foreign-hearted people, so as to help more foreign-hearted children. He hoped that foreign-hearted children from all over the world could come to China for surgery. Although the money was not much, it was a thoughtful gesture.

After Brian visited his granddaughter, he and Mainstein came to the doctor's office with a banner. At this time, Yang Ping was reviewing Aisha's surgery with the doctors. This kind of post-operative review can accumulate experience and lessons to improve everyone's surgical level.

Brian came to the doctor's office with a banner. Since it was his first time to present a banner and he had no experience, he was very stiff. Before August had the chance to greet Yang Ping, Brian stood in front of Yang Ping, immediately holding the scroll banner in both hands and bowed at a 90-degree angle, standing in front of Yang Ping like a sculpture.

Yang Ping was startled by his sudden action. This posture looked like submitting a letter of surrender rather than presenting a banner. It looked weird.

"Professor Yang, Mr. Bryan has sent you a banner to express his gratitude to you. Please accept it." Mannstein was unable to speak such authentic Chinese with his own Chinese level. This was the draft that August had prepared for him, and he had memorized it in advance.

At this time, the doctor next to him also understood that Brian was obviously here to present a banner. He just suddenly stood there in such a posture, and no one understood what was going on. Yang Ping quickly stood up and took the scroll banner.

But Brian kept this posture, and Mannstein thought he was too immersed in the role, so he patted him and said, "That's enough, you can stand up straight now."

Brian showed an extremely painful expression on his face: "I - I can't move now. I can't even straighten my waist now."

Maninstein immediately went to help him, and several doctors also hurried to help, and together they helped Mr. Bryan to sit down, but Mr. Bryan's waist could not move at all, and he could not sit down in this position. They could only help him to the side as he requested. He held the edge of the desk with both hands and continued to maintain this strange posture with a pale face.

"Lumbar disc herniation or spondylolisthesis?" Yang Ping immediately made a diagnosis based on the symptoms.

This is most likely due to lumbar disc herniation or slippage, resulting in segmental instability. After bending over, either the intervertebral disc suddenly herniates and compresses the nerve roots, or there is excessive relative displacement of the lumbar segments. During the displacement, soft tissue is embedded and cannot be repositioned. Now you can only maintain this posture. To put it simply, the lumbar spine is stuck.

"I usually don't dare to bend over like this, but I forgot about it today. Now I can't stand up after bending over like this, and the back of my left leg is also swollen and painful." Brian spoke through gritted teeth, his expression extremely painful.

At this time, almost all doctors thought of this point. They are all well-trained and excellent doctors with top-notch professional qualities.

"Help him to the ward, have Dr. Liang come down and put in a pain pump for him, and push him down for an MRI to see what's going on." Yang Ping instructed the doctor beside him, and everyone immediately took action, each taking their positions and working together. Mannstein saw that his old friend had made such an awkward situation by sending a silk banner, and had made a full plan. Next, he would open the silk banner and read the thank-you letter on it, and then everyone would stand in a row to take pictures. But now, no one had the free time to open the silk banner and take pictures, as they were all concerned about his condition.

After hearing what Yang Ping said, Mannstein also agreed with this preliminary diagnosis. If this was true, this old friend would have to undergo surgery in China.

"It has been many years, so every time I dare not bend down, sometimes I can't straighten up when I bend down to pick up paper scraps on the ground. I always thought I had sprained my waist. Today the symptoms are particularly severe, and I feel like my waist is broken." After Brian finished speaking, his forehead was covered with sweat.

Someone pushed a wheelchair over, but Brian couldn't sit in it at all, so he decided to walk to the ward by himself. With the help of everyone, Brian walked to the ward step by step in this weird posture.

Everyone helped him lie on his side on the bed, but he still maintained this position. His lumbar spine was unable to move, and the slightest movement caused excruciating pain.

After he had a short rest, Fatty Liang came hurriedly with equipment. With the assistance of a resident trainee, he quickly inserted a pain pump into Brian for pain relief. In Brian's situation, ordinary pain relief methods would not be very effective, so Yang Ping simply gave him a pain pump directly.

After the pain was relieved, two young doctors pushed him to the imaging department for an MRI. Mannstein followed them all the time. He didn't expect that his old friend's waist was so weak and ended up like this.

The results of the lumbar MRI showed that there was a herniated disc at L4/5 and spondylolisthesis at L4/5. The huge herniated nucleus pulposus had pressed tightly against the left nerve root. The nerve root was obviously swollen and the degree of lumbar spondylolisthesis had reached the second degree. In this case, surgery was necessary. Not only did the herniated disc need to be removed, but the L4/5 also needed to be repositioned and fused.

"Old buddy, you are really lucky this time. The disease occurred in Sanbo Hospital." Maninstein congratulated Brian.

Brian thought that Mannstein was still laughing at him at this time, but when he thought about it carefully, it made sense. This disease has existed for many years and it would become like this sooner or later. Now that he has developed the disease in Sanbo Hospital, he happened to find Professor Yang to perform the surgery. Isn't this lucky enough?

"I agree with you. This is a lucky thing." Brian was open-minded. In his heart, as long as his granddaughter was fine, nothing else mattered.

Mannstein added: "Just think of it as a minor surgery while you're in China."

"I just heard the doctor's description. It's a big operation. The herniated disc needs to be removed, the remaining disc tissue between the two vertebrae needs to be removed, and then bone tissue needs to be implanted between them. Finally, special screws need to be implanted to firmly fix the two vertebrae together so that they will grow together forever." Brian curled up in the bed, still lying on his side. On the way to and from the check-up, he had already learned a lot about his operation.

In this situation, it is not a matter of whether or not to have the surgery. The surgery must be done, otherwise he will have to go back to Sweden and let the Swedish doctors toss him around. Swedish doctors only perform a few lumbar spine surgeries a year. Their educational backgrounds are perfect and their theoretical knowledge is impeccable, but the number of surgeries is too low and their surgical skills are definitely not as good as here. In the past, Brian would not stay in China for surgery even if it hurt him to death, and would crawl back to Europe, but now his perception has completely changed. He really doesn't trust the skills of those high-ranking masters.