The operation continues. As the pontine angle is revealed, the situation inside is also shown on the big screen.
The tumor seems to have been clearly exposed, waiting for the surgeon to remove the fruit.
However, in the eyes of the extremely experienced Yuken Kamura and Walker, what they saw was different.
This is just an arachnoid cyst covering the surface of an acoustic neuroma. It is quite confusing and often misleads doctors into treating it as a lesion, thereby ignoring the real acoustic neuroma.
This kind of thing may be able to stop some young people with weak foundations, right?
However, the faint, dark thoughts that had just arisen in Jia Cun's heart and were difficult to express openly were broken by Tao Le.
To be precise, her actions were too quick and decisive, leaving no room for his imagination.
Tao Le did everything smoothly, puncturing, draining and cleaning the arachnoid cyst.
And in the next moment, she successfully found the lower pole of the tumor and showed it with practical actions. She was not confused at all.
Before starting the resection, she did another thing: she took out a few bright filiform needles and stuck them into the patient's skull.
Not only Zheng Changchun and Zhuo Shengli looked confused at this step, but Yuken Kamura and Walker were even more so.
The difference is that they have seen a similar situation before in the previous video of a large aneurysm.
This is not a new technology or procedure that is currently popular in neurosurgery.
Tony once explained this at that time, saying that just a few needles could stop the bleeding.
Yuken Kamura actually has a somewhat shallow understanding of Chinese acupuncture.
It does have a certain effect on certain diseases, but when it comes to clamping blood vessels and blocking blood flow like a silver clip, it is still not very scientific.
But it doesn't matter, they are at the operation site now and can see with their own eyes whether these slender needles can be as magical as Tony described.
Once Tao Le entered the operating state, he immediately became highly concentrated and forgot about everything in the periphery. He had long forgotten that there were two foreign experts in the operating room who were trying hard to find mistakes.
The incision in the posterior fossa was not large, and it was impossible to directly remove the 5-centimeter-diameter acoustic neuroma, so Tao Le chose intracapsular resection.
She first used brain cotton to protect part of the auditory nerve below the tumor side, and then selected a site without blood vessels to make an incision above the tumor.
When Zheng Changchun saw this, his brows gradually wrinkled.
According to the routine procedure, Tao Le should first use electrocautery or clamping of blood vessels to stop the bleeding in advance to avoid massive bleeding after the incision, which would affect the operation.
Unexpectedly, after all the reliable results in the early stage raised his expectations infinitely, this person suddenly became aggressive again without warning, and simply omitted the important step of stopping the bleeding.
This was like causing his old man's heart to be smashed directly into the hole from a high altitude. Not only was he hurt, but he was also worried and frightened.
"Xiao Tao!" He couldn't bear it anymore and opened his mouth while Tao Le cut open the tumor.
"What?" Tao Le asked subconsciously as he took the curette from the instrument nurse without stopping.
Zheng Changchun was already ready to stop the bleeding. The instructor's words of reproach came to his lips, but he swallowed them back.
Because there was not a drop of blood at the incision in front of her, it seemed that what she was cutting was not a brain tumor covered with large and small blood vessels, but just a dry bun with no water at all.
"It's okay. You continue." Zheng Changchun heard his dry voice.
At this moment, Han Tai's reproachful words echoed in his ears again.
"You haven't learned acupuncture to control pulse and stop bleeding?"
"That one is also very useful for your surgical procedures."
Okay, now I have probably seen what it means to control pulses and stop bleeding with acupuncture, he thought.
If anyone doesn’t take this kind of thing seriously and is too lazy to learn it despite knowing its effects, then he is simply a fool!
Suddenly, he remembered Xiao Fang, the resident doctor that Corey sent to attend a related briefing in the hospital last time.
This kid only gave everyone a strange device, and casually mentioned that everyone should learn it, but he didn't explain what was going on, and he didn't supervise follow-up.
Thinking about it, he must not have taken this kind of skill seriously, right?
What a little recipe! No wonder Corey took this matter lightly. It turned out that the root cause was not himself, but Xiaofang's failure to convey good spirit and preach good policies.
After the operation, he must find Xiaofang and talk to him carefully so that he can face his problems to avoid making more mistakes in this era of new technologies emerging in waves!
He was stunned here, but Walker and Kamura Yuken were stunned.
When they watched that video, they were skeptical and dismissive, and they just laughed it off as if acupuncture could stop bleeding.
But in front of us was a real surgical scene. Just a few thin needles, but the hemostatic effect was so good that it was impossible to ignore.
The Chinese were actually able to develop such practical technology based on ancient Chinese medicine.
While Yuken Kamura was in a trance, Walker's eyes were bright when he saw it, and his face was filled with shock and anticipation.
Yuken Kamura knew what he was expecting without having to guess.
In fact, he himself is the same. If you don't know, that's fine. Now that you've seen the wonders of this technology, why wouldn't you want to learn it?
At this moment, he suddenly understood why Tony had recommended Dr. Tao to join the association, even at the risk of being questioned and demoted.
I think selfless sharing of technology among core members is his purpose, right?
In Tao Le's hands, the curette is like turning into a small suction device, which can bring out a large amount of tumor tissue every time it goes in and out.
The intratumoral tissue is scraped in order, with the outer part first, then the upper and lower parts, and finally the inner part.
Because the acoustic neuroma is close to the pons, its location is relatively deep, and it is closely related to the basal artery branches, so scraping the deepest medial tissue is one of the difficulties in the operation.
The reason why it becomes difficult is that the inner side of the tumor is not clearly exposed, and it is difficult to determine how much tumor tissue has been removed and how much is left.
This step should be done patiently, carefully, slowly, and scraped gently to remove as much tissue within the tumor as possible while avoiding damage to the brainstem and blood vessels supplying the pons.
But Tao Le's actions subverted everyone's understanding.
Her speed is consistent, her fingers are steady, and her judgment is accurate. No matter what part she is scraping, it is fast and efficient. She is like a computer that never makes mistakes.
This is actually impossible. Yuken Kamura firmly believes that everyone will make mistakes, and only he and those he recognizes can avoid most mistakes by relying on talent and diligence.
The surgery is advancing at such a fast speed, and it is extremely rare to be able to maintain accuracy.
Next is the most difficult part of the entire operation.
At that stage, no one can be sure.
