The Godfather of Surgery

Jim Bassa Decision - Report to the White House.

The matter must be reported to the White House. If the Chinese are invited to help in an emergency, it is beyond his purview and must be done through diplomatic channels. This is the job of the Secretary of State.

Jim Bassa cannot command the Secretary of State, but the White House can.

"This matter is beyond our ability, I need to report to the White House, please wait a moment."

Jim Bassa called NASA scientists and officials for an emergency meeting in the control center conference room, and was asked to video link even if something was not there.

"Everyone, we encountered the biggest crisis after the Columbia incident in 2003. Everyone has heard the opinions of medical experts. Their opinions are very clear. Only with the help of a Chinese doctor can we possibly resolve the crisis. These experts are the top medical professors in the country, and their opinions represent the most professional opinions, and I am ready to report this to the White House."

Jim Bassa understands the complexity of the matter. If the handling of this crisis is slightly wrong, he will not only be held accountable and resign, but he will also be notorious.

"The International Space Station has always excluded China. Now we want to invite, no, to ask for help from China. I'm afraid it's not that easy." Richard is very embarrassed. In this context, asking for help from China will be difficult for the United States to talk about, and neither does China. Will definitely help.

"It is very sensitive, but in any case, we can only ask the White House to come forward. We cannot afford this embarrassment. Whether it is reported or not is our problem. Whether or not we are willing or able to invite Chinese doctors is their problem." Aerospace scientist Mercado hit the nail on the head.

"Maybe it's because we are overly sensitive. China doesn't need to cooperate with us at all. They have independently developed a space station. We keep it secret and treat it like a treasure, but people may never like it." Another scientist, Vinson Polder Very optimistic.

"This is a matter of the White House. We only know now that we need the help of Chinese doctors, otherwise Steven will not be able to return to Earth alive. As for how to ask for help, I think the Secretary of State will have a solution."

Most agreed to ask the Chinese to help, if it was an aerospace technology issue, they would have a full say, now it's a medical matter, and they have no choice but to support Jim Bassa.

Anyone who interferes will be condemned afterwards. Life is above everything else. They cannot understand this truth.

"Everyone, if you have no opinion, I will report it to the White House now?" Jim Bassa hurried to report. Once this incident deviates from the right path, it will be like a vortex, involving many people. In case of a vortex, Jim Bassa does not want to be a scapegoat.

"How to oppose? Oppose Steven coming back alive?"

No one dared to object, and the pervasive reporters were the ears of the wall. Perhaps after the meeting, their opinions would be in the news.

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Internet news was more responsive than newspapers. In the overhead compartment, Yang Ping was browsing the news on the Internet. The examination results came out. Steven's brainstem had a small aneurysm.

Yang Ping is very interested in these difficult cases, which require interventional techniques for coil embolization, but this requires extremely small coils, and the operation is very difficult. Compared with the liver, especially the brainstem, the blood vessels near or through the nerve nucleus cannot be achieved by interventional techniques.

Yang Ping saw Johanneson's WeChat, because he could use WIFI to surf the Internet on this plane, but he couldn't make calls or send and receive text messages.

Fortunately, in order to maintain contact with Yang Ping, Johanneson has long learned to use WeChat.

Intervention? Intracranial intervention? Or brain stem, Johannesson was in Houston, it turned out to be for Steven's business, Yang Ping was not busy answering.

Intervention is not Yang Ping's specialty, but it doesn't matter. Yang Ping entered the system space and looked for interventional surgery training in the surgery training of the mall.

In the training package with various names, a complete interventional training has been opened. Internal medicine, surgery, and intervention have become three parallel technologies. To make one's medical skills complete, intervention is indispensable. Yang Ping feels that it is time to light up the intervention technology. .

Yang Ping purchased a heavyweight intervention training package to perform devil training in the system space.

With a strong foundation in anatomy and surgery, interventional techniques are easy to learn.

The intervention of various systems in the whole body, Yang Ping has all been repeatedly trained, the intracranial interventional treatment is the most difficult and the highest risk, the intervention of the brainstem is currently a restricted area, but in the system, there is no restricted area.

Yang Ping has no interest in the training of hundreds of operations. He now starts with a few thousand training packages.

In the system space, no matter the difficulty of the case or the cutting-edge interventional technology, you can choose it at will.

After perfecting the interventional technology, he used the case push function to obtain cases similar to Steven's, and thoroughly studied these cases and trained them well.

Even Yang Ping trained to operate in the microgravity environment of the space station, using remote robotic surgery.

After thoroughly mastering the interventional technique, Yang Ping had a bottom line. If it was appropriate to replicate Steven's case and simulate it hundreds of times, what difficulties would there still be in this operation.

"Coil embolization can be done by an interventional method, and it is safer to use drug-loaded microspheres."

Yang Ping replied to Johanneson in a concise and comprehensive way.

Drug-loaded microsphere intervention technology, the most cutting-edge technology in the world, Yang Ping is not making up mysteries, but this method is the most suitable for Steven.

Ordinary coil embolization successfully resolves the crisis of aneurysm, but a new crisis will emerge, and the coils left in the blood vessels will become new bombs.

Steven will eventually return to Earth, and when he falls at a high speed, once the coil moves, the consequences are unimaginable.

Yang Ping's analysis of cases is more profound than that of Americans, and the thinking ability honed through systematic space is not comparable to ordinary people.

Lao Cheng reclined to sleep and snored, while Huang Jiacai was still reading.

The flight attendant brought a glass of juice over, and Yang Ping bowed.

Outside the window, there was a sea of ​​clouds underneath. At this time, the plane had been out for seven hours.

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"Houston—" Susan called.

"Susan!" Johanneson and Massimo stared at the screen.

The communication signal is not very good, there is a freeze, Susan's anxious voice is intermittent: "Houston, Houston, please Houston."

It took more than ten minutes for the communication to stabilize. Susan, who was so anxious to cry, finally shouted the complete words: "Houston, we are in trouble!"

"Steven can't breathe now!" Susan was very frightened.

"Oh my God!"

Johanneson shook his head.

Massimo was also tense and breathless. The arteries in the brainstem were progressively expanding at the space station 400 kilometers from the ground.

"The blood pressure can't be lowered any more, it will cause shock." Susan's voice trembled.

"Steven? How are you feeling?" Massimo asked.

"He's feeling breathless now." Susan finally couldn't control it and started crying again.

"I can't do anything but oxygen, he can't breathe." Susan almost collapsed. On the space station, she had never dealt with such a real dangerous case, and the loneliness and helplessness crushed her little confidence.

"Don't worry, we're working on a way to help you with telemedicine if necessary," Johanneson reassured Susan.

"Steven, you'll be fine, hold on!" Johanneson encouraged him.

"—" Steven made an OK gesture.

But Director Jim Bassa has not replied yet, everyone is waiting.

"Dr. Yang's plane has been sailing for five hours?" Collins asked.

"It should be almost seven hours now." Johanneson was more anxious than anyone else.

Now everyone is helpless. Even on Earth, Massimo has only a 20% success rate. He has performed operations on 200 monkeys, but he has not performed operations on humans.

Finally, Jim Bassa came out of the conference room.

"It has already been reported to the White House and asked for China's support. As for bowing or kowtowing, that is the matter of Mr. Secretary of State. In short, I said that without the help of this Chinese doctor, Steven will never be able to return." Jim Bassa was relieved.

Next, just wait and maybe do something else.

However, Jim Bassa is still a little sure. Mr. President is planning to seek re-election, so he must not fall into this matter.

"The reporters were blocked downstairs, and they asked, why do we refuse the help of the Chinese, why do we ignore the safety of the astronauts for our own selfish interests?" The secretary hurriedly reported to Jim Bassa.

How did their news come so quickly? The meeting just ended.

The director looked around, everyone looked away, pretended to cough, and shrugged helplessly. In short, everyone said they had nothing to do with themselves.

The Secretary sat down and looked at his watch. There was no phone call yet. Either the White House was hesitating, or Mr. Secretary of State's negotiation had encountered resistance.

"Why so long?" Chief Medical Officer Alpha couldn't wait.

Jim Barça is relatively more poised, knowing that politicians have more to think about than pundits go straight to the point.

"Wait patiently, the report has been submitted, we can only wait." Jim Bassa can only wait, urging who? Urging the president?

Everyone was restless, as if this last ray of hope could be dashed at any moment.

"Director, look, the reporter interviewed Steven's wife."

The secretary turns on the computer, a picture of Steven's wife.

Steven's wife was interviewed by reporters, and she also knew about the invitation of Chinese doctors. She made it clear: "To decide this matter, it should not be just NASA's own actions, but to invite family members to decide together. She strongly requests that if The Chinese can let Steven go home, why can't the Chinese be the hero, she will, and Steven will too."

"It is said on the Internet that we are hesitant to invite Chinese doctors, we are unwilling to let the Chinese be the heroes, we lack the minimum confidence, we are afraid of the Chinese, we—" the secretary explained the direction of online public opinion.

"enough!"

Jim Bassa said angrily, how did these reporters get the news so quickly, and now that he goes to the bathroom, it is estimated that the reporters also know.

But these reporters are right about what the bigwigs in Washington are doing, why there is still no news.

Even Jim Bassa couldn't hold his breath.