Acoustic neuroma is a common benign tumor of the lesser pontine angle. It grows from the vestibular part of the auditory nerve and grows slowly. In addition to compressing the nearby cranial nerves and cerebellum, it also displaces the brainstem, compresses the cerebral aqueduct and forms a sub-tonsillar herniation.
This type of tumor is insensitive to both radiotherapy and chemotherapy, so surgery is the only solution.
Unfortunately, this kind of surgery at the lesser pontine angle is one of the most difficult of all surgical surgeries.
The surgical location is in the posterior cranial fossa, and must be extremely rigorous and meticulous, otherwise it is easy to damage the brainstem, leading to sequelae such as brainstem dysfunction, cerebral edema, and foramen magnum hernia.
Not only that, the auditory nerve, facial nerve, and cochlear nerve will be deformed or even wrapped under the pressure of the tumor. At the same time, the trigeminal, glossopharyngeal, and vagus nerve are also nearby. A little carelessness will cause various neurological dysfunctions.
Therefore, clinically, this extremely difficult level four surgery has always been performed by experienced chief physicians.
Moreover, not every chief physician outside the gods can control it easily.
"Wait a minute." Kamura Yuken's voice rang out.
Han Tai, Zheng Changchun and Gan Yi's expressions all turned ugly, and they all stopped and looked over.
Kamura Yuken had a faint smile on his face, and his eyes glanced at Tao Le inadvertently. Seeing that she was still as calm as ever, he couldn't help but admire her determination.
He turned to Walker and said, "This is the patient. What do you think?"
"Okay." Walker guessed what he was thinking when he asked to stop and simply agreed:
"This resection of an acoustic neuroma in the lesser pontine angle area can more comprehensively reflect the surgeon's ability and level in neurosurgery."
Yuken Kamura nodded and said to Tao Le: "Doctor Tao, if you have any questions, you can ask them now."
All kinds of eyes, complicated, worried, malicious, and confused, all fell on Tao Le's face.
She smiled and said, "I have no problem, I can have surgery at any time."
"That's great." Yuken Kamura said, "Isn't two hours enough for communication with family members, pre-operative discussions and plan design?"
"It's only two hours, isn't it too short?" Zheng Changchun was a little embarrassed.
"You were scheduled to have surgery tomorrow. You must have communicated in advance and designed the relevant surgical plan." Yuken Kamura refused to give in.
"You are right." Zheng Changchun frowned and said, "But now, the chief surgeon has been replaced?"
"So didn't we give you two hours?" Yuken Kamura said nonchalantly: "Actually, for many surgeries that Walker and I did before, we didn't have such a long preparation time."
"Then two hours." Tao Le stood up and said, "Don't worry, I'll take care of everything."
Just because it's you, we don't feel at ease! This sentence kept tumbling in the hearts of Han Tai and others, but they certainly couldn't say it out loud.
If it were Zheng Changchun who performed the surgery, even if the surgery was different from the two other experts, there wouldn't be any problems.
But it's not necessarily the case for a newbie like Tao Le. For a person who has only had one surgical procedure in his life, even if he is lucky enough to succeed, it may not be possible the next time.
It is a very ridiculous thing to entrust the patient's life to luck.
And everyone knows that the difficulty of this operation is much higher than the previous one.
This kind of thing is beyond the understanding of Han Tai and Zheng Changchun, and it also makes them deeply worried.
Patients and families are right in front of them. The Tibetan mother and son could not understand Mandarin or English and did not understand what the doctors were saying.
But their eyes were as clear as lake water, full of trust - the patient's unreserved trust in the doctor.
And what are these highly trusted doctors doing? For the sake of so-called face and honor, he was forced into a corner by the so-called international experts. He had to let a resident doctor who had not completed the training to perform such an extremely complicated and delicate operation that had to be completed under a microscope.
Not to mention guaranteed success, it is even unclear whether the patient's life can be saved.
Are we really going to let down the patient's expectations and trust, put her life on the balance of fate, and then let her fall into the unpredictable abyss?
Obviously all this can be avoided.
Han Tai, Zheng Changchun and Gan Yi looked at each other, and everyone saw the same determination in the other's eyes.
It started from ignorance and vanity, and now it’s time to return to reality.
"Mr. Walker, Mr. Kamura." Han Tai's tone was a little heavy: "I'm sorry, we don't think Tao Le can perform this operation. She is young and lacks experience, so..."
"Oh, that's not possible." Walker rejected him flatly: "The two of us rejected all the patients waiting for us and came here specifically to investigate Dr. Tao."
"Due to time constraints, we omitted the conversation and many other steps, and directly judged based on surgical ability - this is already the minimum requirement. If you can't even do this, then this membership inspection will be a It’s a scam and a farce, and you will bear the consequences accordingly.”
"Even if we voluntarily abstain due to lack of ability, it can't be said to be a scam, right?" Zheng Changchun interjected and asked.
A meaningful smile appeared on the corner of Kamura Yuken's mouth.
“Every one of our members, whether ordinary members or core members, has extremely valuable time.”
"In order to start Dr. Tao's induction ceremony, all core members spent half an hour watching the surgery video and another hour for collective discussion and voting."
"We do this in order to recruit a new member who is worthy of the name, rather than being teased and ridiculed. Therefore, the federation has special regulations in this regard:
For those who fabricate and submit false information in an attempt to infiltrate the federation, once verified, not only the recommender will be demoted, but the federation will not accept membership applications from all doctors in the country where the fake doctor is located within five years. "
The amount of information contained in these words was very large, which made Han Tai and others think deeply.
First, the video of Tao Le’s last surgery was watched by all the core members of the International Federation of Psychiatrists, and she was nominated for membership because of this.
This shows what? It shows that that video must have wonderful content that subverts their cognition. Otherwise, why would it be recognized by these big guys?
Secondly, this video may not be true. At least the two people in front of them have doubts in their minds, and it may also represent the thoughts of other core members of the federation.
None of the people present, including Han Tai, Zheng Changchun, and Gan Yi, had seen the video and naturally had no right to speak.
Thirdly, whether this rule of the International Federation of Theologians is true or false, it puts them in a dilemma.
Let Tao Le do it, I'm afraid it will hurt the patient's life, and he still won't pass the inspection in the end;
But to abstain now would be to directly admit to committing fraud, which would not only ruin her own reputation, but also the entire Hua Guo Neurosurgery doctors would lose their membership qualifications within five years.
For a moment, the ward fell into silence, and everyone's eyes focused on Tao Le again.
