Chapter 912: [(912)] The critical step is coming Chapter 912: [(912)] The critical step is coming At this point, the surgeon was able to carefully deal with the shattered spleen.

“Do you know how much volume of the spleen we need to preserve? Do you know how to preserve it?” Nie Jiamin taught the students step by step.

“More than one third, slice it, and place it inside the omentum,” Xie Wanying answered quickly while closely observing the teacher’s procedure. The knowledge she replied with was limited to what was in the textbooks, and only the teacher, with experience, could demonstrate how it was actually done.

Teacher Nie’s movements were slow paced, but don’t mistake it for the teacher performing or preaching. The boss simply had to be slow to ensure that each step was properly done.

The spleen had to be peeled from its capsule, and all the residual blood inside had to be drained before starting to slice. The slices had to be thin and small, and one could only slice slowly, achieving evenly sized slices. The sliced spleen was then placed into the Balanced Solution for thorough rinsing. Any lack of meticulousness in these steps could result in re-infection or necrosis.

Children are not like adults, where a small deviation could pose a significantly high risk.

Instead of feeling sleepy, everyone’s attention was highly focused.

During the omentum step, Xie Wanying assisted the teacher in retrieving the omentum. Nie Jiamin asked her to help place the spleen slices inside the layers of the omentum and spread them out. This step was even more delicate and required even more patience. Xie Wanying picked up a small round needle and together with the teacher, they stitched each spleen slice in place.

The surgery had been going on for more than three hours.

Other doctors from the volunteer team had arrived at the county hospital, and they were eager to rush to the operating room to find out the latest situation.

“Not sure what’s happening. Can Yingying cope?” Kang Mingzhu worried all the way down from the hospital’s shuttle bus after Zhu Huicang had said a bunch of things unfavorable to Xie Wanying. It was incredibly unnerving.

“Don’t be nervous,” Doctor Kim told her, yet he was just as nervous himself.

“You guys go and see, I have business to attend to first,” Hui Cang told the two women, as he was pulled by the county hospital staff to handle the transfer of a severely injured patient with a pneumothorax.

Chang Jiawei also wanted to take a look at the operating room but was too busy transferring a group of fracture patients.

He Guangyou and Qiu Ruiyun had asked three medical students to help with transferring patients while they themselves rushed to the operating room because they had been scolded by Tao Zhijie over the phone.

Indeed, it shouldn’t have been the situation to leave Nie Jiamin with Xie Wanying alone.

What if something happened to the hospital’s newly arrived professor? Nobody dared to think further.

Four people sprinted towards the county hospital’s operating room.

Upon arriving at the operating room, Doctor Kim remarked, “This place reminds me of our hospital in the past.”

“How can this compare to our hospital’s operating rooms from before? There are only a few operating rooms here,” Kang Mingzhu disagreed. Back then, even if Guoxie had poor conditions, the hospital still had many operating rooms and wasn’t short-staffed like this.

“The county hospital is said to perform mostly cesarean sections throughout the year,” Doctor Kim had heard from colleagues, but wasn’t sure if it was true, “There are also orthopedic and appendicitis surgeries. Major surgeries can’t be done without the right expertise.”

Admittedly, Zhu Huicang’s earlier worries were justified. In such a place, Nie Jiamin wanted to perform surgery on an infant, and certainly needed a capable assistant. Did the night emergency doctors in the county hospital have the skills to support the boss? If not, could Xie Wanying hold up?

The operating room nurse opened the door for them.

He Guangyou asked, “Has your Director Qi of surgery returned yet?”

The head of general surgery in the county hospital was surnamed Qi,–this was who Tao Zhijie had hurriedly contacted after hearing about the situation. After all, if the head of surgery from the county hospital returned, it could perhaps ensure more security for the operation.