Chapter 125: Demonstrating Operation Technique
Professor Zhong Junyun’s triangular, inverted eyebrows shot up, as if a great saber was about to cleave Lu Cheng in two.
“Do you know what you’re saying?” Professor Zhong Junyun’s voice was icy, instantly dropping his favorability towards Lu Cheng by at least seven or eight degrees.
Lu Cheng nodded and replied truthfully, “Teacher, the anatomy of the brachioradialis muscle is very similar to zone 7 of the upper limb extensor tendons, which is the structure of the dorsal carpal ligament.”
“Following my habit when I was studying with Professor Tong Yuan’an of Xiangya Hospital, I might recommend the sliding Jin Xia Suturing Technique as the first choice.”
“In recent years, Professor Tajima’s Tajima Suturing Technique, based on the Jin Xia Suturing Technique, is also good, but Teacher Tong’s team’s independently developed ‘tong’ method is also quite practical.”
“However, whether it’s called the ‘tong method’ is still undecided for now.”
Lu Cheng provided a very specific example and explained the practicality of different suturing techniques.
Professor Zhong Junyun’s frown lines slowly smoothed out, and he looked at his favorite student, Xiao Pan, saying, “An original tendon suturing technique from Xiangya Hospital? Is that so?”
Professor Zhong Junyun’s frown lines transferred to Pan Leiming’s forehead, and he furrowed his brows, “Master, I haven’t heard of it either. Has it not been officially documented and published yet?”
“We’ll have to ask to find out.”
Professor Zhong Junyun thought for a moment and asked, “Do you know this suturing technique originally developed by Xiangya Hospital? If you do, let’s go to the research room together and study it.”
“I’ve heard of the tendon suturing techniques developed by Professor Tajima in the past two years, but our department’s main research direction is nerve suturing, so I’m somewhat powerless in this area.”
Lu Cheng was certainly not speaking without reason; otherwise, there would be no need to create trouble. The main reason was that he had asked Lu Cheng.
Chinese people have a sentiment of living a good life and crushing their rivals, which is concentrated in all aspects, and this sentiment is unified!
“Yes, Teacher.”
“Then this surgery?” Lu Cheng asked.
“Who told you to make trouble? The surgery is canceled!” Professor Zhong Junyun said irritably.
He had painstakingly found a limb replantation surgery for Lu Cheng, and Lu Cheng had turned it down himself. Who could he blame?
However, although Xiangya Hospital’s reputation is not good, not many people currently say that Xiangya Hospital’s technology is bad.
In some ways, the hand surgery technology at Xiangya Hospital is not inferior to that of Xiehe Hospital, especially in the field of skin flaps, where they have quite unique insights.
Of course, Professor Zhong Junyun was wondering at this moment if Lu Cheng was intentionally provoking him, especially since he had deliberated for a long time before making a difficult decision last night.
There was no other way, the buffs were all stacked: old professor, senior, heroes who sacrificed their lives saving people, all written in the notebook’s last wishes.
Lu Cheng thought to himself, “If Teacher Zhong hadn’t dug a pit for me, I might have started the operation long ago. You’re digging in the pit, digging and digging, and I’m halfway in. If you don’t express yourself clearly, are you waiting to be hit on the radial styloid process?”
It’s not that his radial styloid process couldn’t be hit, but it shouldn’t be hit casually.
Surgery is not a child’s play. Without thorough preparation, it’s not worth starting. No matter how meticulous the preparation, it’s not excessive.
“Pan Leiming, get someone to handle this!” Professor Zhong Junyun instructed, then got up and left the operating table.
This kind of limb replantation was within Pan Leiming’s expertise; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been the chief resident of Xiehe Hospital’s Hand Surgery Department.
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Afterward, Professor Zhong Junyun led Lu Cheng through a maze of corridors out of the operating room and to another floor of the Physiology Experiment Building, to another, more spacious research and development room.
The sign on the office door was even more imposing: “Hand Surgery Functional Research and Development Room.”
Previously, Lu Cheng had gone to advanced research with Xie Yuan’an.
Research and development, though only one word apart, were vastly different.
The R&D room was wider and larger, covering over one hundred square meters. There was only one longer operating table, and more equipment inside…
Professor Zhong Junyun said, “For tendon suturing, what materials were you preparing before? Was it pig hind leg tendons?”
“Yes, Teacher,” Lu Cheng replied.
“Then that’s correct. I’ve already asked someone to prepare them. Actually, it’s good. Right now, you are in your comfort zone for tendon suturing. Forcing you to do vascular suturing would be a bit difficult with your basic skills.”
“But don’t worry, you’ll get used to it after more practice. Our department’s Xiao Pan has the same level of basic skills as you.”
“But he can take shortcuts.”
“Tell me in detail about the tendon suturing technique developed by Xiangya Hospital so I can broaden my horizons,” said Professor Zhong Junyun.
Xiangya Hospital’s reputation is judged by people, while professional technology and scientific research level are judged by peers.
The reputation of the entire hospital cannot be swayed by outsiders. However, Professor Zhong Junyun never dared to say that Xiangya Hospital’s technology was garbage, so he was quite curious about what this sister hospital had been doing.
Lu Cheng thought for a moment, looked at Professor Zhong Junyun, and said hesitantly, “Teacher Zhong, actually, besides the tendon suturing technique developed by Xiangya Hospital, there’s another tendon suturing technique I want to tell you about.”
Professor Zhong Junyun’s expression immediately stiffened, and he asked with a drawn-out, bewildered tone, “This is also… where did it come from?”
Professor Zhong Junyun thought to himself, I mainly research nerve suturing, but I’m not completely ignorant of tendon suturing. How are there so many tendon suturing techniques I don’t know about?
“I thought of it myself!”
After Lu Cheng finished speaking, he saw Professor Zhong Junyun’s frown lines reappear and immediately said, “Teacher, I’m afraid you’ll misunderstand, so I’m telling you everything.”
“If you think I’m fooling around, I won’t say anything.”
Professor Zhong Junyun tapped the table with his right index and middle fingers and asked, “Are you intentionally trying to elevate yourself?”
Lu Cheng shook his head, his expression calm, “No, Teacher Zhong!”
“I will cherish the opportunity to learn, but I will not intentionally boast. After all, I’ve come this far by fumbling around on my own for so many years.”
Professor Zhong Junyun thought about Lu Cheng’s identity: a county hospital doctor.
He suddenly understood, “Then we won’t bother you for now. We’ll talk about it after we’ve seen it…”
Professor Zhong Junyun was quite influential, likely being a big shot in the R&D lab with cooperating biological companies constantly stocking supplies for him.
Before long, someone delivered excellent quality fresh pig hind trotters.
“Professor Zhong, the items you requested are ready. Are the sutures here enough? Should I prepare another batch?” The person who arrived was a slightly overweight middle-aged man with a smiling face.
“No rush, we use nerve sutures quite a lot. We used to use tendon sutures occasionally, but not necessarily in the future.”
“When we need them, I’ll have someone notify you,” Professor Zhong Junyun waved for the person to leave.
The person was a supplier from a biological company, and the business was not with a student.
“Ah, alright, Teacher Zhong, then I won’t disturb you.” The middle-aged man glanced at Lu Cheng, planning to add Lu Cheng on WeChat later.
Professor Zhong Junyun rarely actively requested tendon suturing materials, so this person was likely the future “suture consumption boss.”
With a new boss, of course, they had to serve him. That was the money he earned.
Lu Cheng then began demonstrating the tendon suturing techniques.
Although the panel was in disarray, it did not mean that the modified Kessler and other suturing techniques Lu Cheng knew before had disappeared and were no longer known.
Lu Cheng performed suturing demonstrations on five pig trotter tendons for each suturing technique, from modified Kessler to modified Tang, Jin Xia, Tajima Suturing Techniques, the ‘tong’ method, and the ‘Unnamed Suturing Technique’ that newly appeared on his panel!
A total of thirty pig trotter tendons were sutured, taking Lu Cheng a full ten hours to complete.
Professor Zhong Junyun stayed with him, carefully observing Lu Cheng’s operations. He indeed found that Lu Cheng had a grasp and understanding of various tendon suturing techniques, and then he ate lunch and dinner with Lu Cheng in the R&D room.
“The second-to-last suturing technique you performed should be the one from Xiangya Hospital, right? And your last suturing technique does have shadows of many other suturing techniques,” said Professor Zhong Junyun, stroking his chin thoughtfully.
“Yes, Teacher. I can’t completely create an original modified technique on my own, so I can only borrow the subtlety of other teachers’ suturing techniques.”
“Mainly, it’s also that two days ago, after hearing the essence of the suturing technique of the nerve suturing technique you developed, Teacher, I had a flash of inspiration.”
“But I’m not sure myself if this suturing technique is better than other suturing techniques.”
