Due to deal restructure text to speech player is currently unavailable. Will find a solution soon.

Chapter 55: 55

Chapter 55: Stitching and the Saw

Before the start of the operation, an inflatable tourniquet was placed on the malformed limb of patient No . 25 . While it had significantly reduced the perioperative blood loss, there was still fresh crimson blood flowing out of the incision . As the operation continued, the nurses had already begun blood transfusion for the patient at the lower limbs .

The strong smell of iron from the blood blended with the distinctive whiff of the malformed limb and fumed mercilessly towards Gu Jun . Receiving the needle forceps from the circulating nurse, Gu Jun bent toward the operative field .

“Be careful,” Zhu Ruiwen dropped a word of advice and turned back to his own procedure . He still had to handle the twisted and malformed levator scapulae (neck and shoulder muscle) and the rhomboid muscle (shoulder blades) . The malformation of a Banyan Malformation Disease patient was rooted from within the tissue outwards to the surface . As such, the difficulty of the operation would only intensify as the process continued .

With the aid of the 2nd assistant, 1st assistant, Zen Jianguo, moved on to assist the primary surgeon .

With a deep breath, Gu Jun took his first stitch on the twisted muscle .

Hm, slightly tougher than usual . I need to use more force .

Narrowing his eyes onto the cut, his nerves on his hands quickly adjusted to the new texture . Only thinking about his task, it was much less daunting . Be it jinmenken, an average person, or a malformed limb, all he needed to do was to apply his sutures professionally .

Like the thousands of practices he did in the past half month, he stitched 1 after another .

Among the surgeons, the only one who had time to watch was errand boy, Li Hualong . On the sidelines, the nurses were also watching Gu Jun, who had taken a radical change .

“Wow . ” As the circulating nurse, this nurse had an obligation to watch over the procedure and assist should it be necessary . Initially, she had believed that this little boy would be frantic and panicky . Worst still, he could be chased away from the table by more experienced surgeons to calm down . Who knew? The scene right now was dramatically different . She could not believe her eyes .

Is this the same boy that was scared listless just now?

Li Hualong’s brows raised as he watched on . Gu Jun was like a swordsman who was brandishing his blade expertly, swiftly, and cutting through the wind . Pure elegance .

Gu Jun was using the running locking suture . While the start and end were highly similar to the simple continuous suture, the process was much more complicated . Every stitch had to pass through the loop of the previous stitch . This method could prevent the wound from reopening and played a more substantial role in providing hemostasis . However, it was not widely used due to its complex steps and time consumption .

However, Gu Jun was finishing his suturing at a swift pace . Even when compared to the conventional time needed for a simple continuous suture, he was fast .

In comparison with the timing for the running locking suture, he was lightning fast . It was almost as if Gu Jun was a staple machine which clicks nonstop and was 100% accurate even at top speed .

“Gu Jun, he is indeed…” within his heart, Li Hualong muttered in admiration . “What a talent . ”

He did not harbour maliciousness towards Gu Jun, but was undoubtedly uncomfortable with him as a second aid . If this wasn’t the Phecda Department, he would have believed that Gu Jun had gone through a backdoor especially with that poor performance before the start of the operation .

All these doubts and dissatisfaction in Li Hualong’s heart had vanished . His initial arrogance and resentment were forcibly stripped off .

When he was admitted into the Phecda Department, the belief that he was very talented was deeply rooted within him . But now, Gu Jun gave him a life lesson, “There would always be someone better than you . ”

“Nicely done, second assistant!” Zhu Ruiwen looked at the suture and exclaimed . The surprise that he initially had when watching Gu Jun was back on his face .

This was the Gu Jun that Elder Qin spoke so highly of!

With the cessation of the blood loss, the surgical field cleared up . The next step could now be carried out by the primary surgeon and 1st assistant .

Zhu Ruiwen started to operate on the twisted scapular levator muscles . At that point, cries echoed throughout the room again . The patient’s body spasmed as sorrowful bawling ensued, “Ah, please . Please let me go… oh . Oh… my child . My two babies… let them go… they are young…”

The patient’s voice became more and more emotional and pained . While they may claim that it was words of delirium, the sentences were very complete and coherent . Every word shook with horror and reeked of despair . It seemed that something more terrible than death had happened .

These words clawed on the will of everybody in the operating room . Just like a lone ship sailing on the stormy seas, blown by the strong wind and crashed by the waves . Once it could not stand upright, it would be swept away into the abyss .

As the heartwrenching words continued, Li Hualong’s will gradually weakened . Like some lethal poisons, mental stress was initially asymptomatic initially, but it slowly intruded the heart as time passed . At the breaking point, it would launch a sudden attack . Soon, its effects would show up . Li Hualong’s right hand, which was holding gauze to clean the blood and black liquid from the wound, was trembling . Despite his utmost efforts, he couldn’t control it .

Under the glare of the shadowless lamp, his forehead was sparkling . The pressure was really scraping away his resilience . “Sister Chen,” Li Hualong turned to his head and called, “sorry to trouble you . Please help me clean up the sweat on my forehead . ”

Sister Chen was the circulating nurse . She immediately walked over . With a clean gauze, she gave a strong forceful wipe on the rascal’s forehead, jolting him back into attention . To be honest, many of the other nurses on the sideline wanted to give this brat a “reminder” too . Initially, they had wanted to speak for Li Hualong and help him get promoted . Alas, now they knew Zhu Ruiwen was perfect in his judgement .

Li Hualong ah, Li Hualong . Look at Gu Jun!!

Ever since Gu Jun began the stitching, he seemed to have morphed into a completely different person . Despite facing the patient’s mania at point-blank, his calmness and steadfastness were unshaken . Right now, Gu Jun’s impeccable stature could be said to be the motivation of the entire room . After all, if a newbie could keep his cool, the experienced members like the others did not wish to bear the embarrassment of being the first to give up .

“My child, my child…” Even when fleeting through the blurred lines of consciousness, the patient constantly repeated this sentence as if it was her last threads of hope .

“Phoo, phoo . ” Gu Jun kept breathing at a steady rhythm while his hands worked . It almost seemed like his fingers were independent of his body as he moved the needle forceps quickly and precisely .

Contrary to the others’s opinions, he did hear the anguished words of the patient . However, he had clearly distinguished his mission .

Although they were also causing extreme pain to others, they were different from those scums from the Lai Sheng company .

His job was simple; saving people . That’s all .

Your two children; your family and friends . If they are in this group of patients, we will also be sure to save them .

Gu Jun swore in his heart solemnly . For now, he would not think of other things . It’s just him and every stitch he was making to reduce the blood loss bit by bit .

Deep in focus, Gu Jun had lost track of time . Wherever Zhu Ruiwen pointed to, he stitched . Even when his forehead was glistening like the summer seas, he did not notice . Circulating nurse, Sister Chen, had to take the initiative to call out to him, “Second Assistant Gu, turn your head over . Let me clean your sweat for you . ”

“Oh, okay . ” Gu Jun turned his head slightly . Even so, his hands never stopped .

That blew the minds of Li Hualong and the nurses .

Did Gu Jun grow eyes on his hands? How the heck is he able to keep stitching? And it is still flawless!

“Oh my, there’s so much sweat . ” Gently, Sister Chen held up the gauze and patted away the beads of sweat . “Don’t be nervous . You are doing fantastic . ”

Gu Jun smiled and turned back . Well, not like he ever felt nervous .

Having removed the back muscles, it was time for the sawing of the clavicle to expose the nerves and blood vessels .

It was only natural that bone sawing was part of the process . The scalpel just won’t be enough, not when the bones were malformed and twisted to this extent .

“Where’s the saw?” asked Zhu Ruiwen . The scrub nurse immediately passed a Stryker power system saw, dragged a cable, and set it to high horsepower . With a 14mm drill bit securely attached, Zhu Ruiwen could start it the very instant it landed on his hands . With a press of a button, the blood-curdling screeches rang .

CHHK! CHHK! CHHK!

“Ah…” The patient’s gut-wrenching screams layered over the bone cutting screeches from the saw .

Anaesthetist Yan Haizhe stared at the indicators displayed on the anaesthesia machine . On his side, the nurses were in position and ready to rescue at any moment . The local anaesthesia operation had a 76% success rate . Of the 24% failure rate, it was mostly at the step of sawing the bones . Should the patient be unable to bear it, some would lose consciousness and never wake up due to pain; some even triggered cardiac arrest .

Gu Jun left his position and watched quietly while Zhu Ruiwen held the saw to the clavicle in the patient’s posterior incision . With steady hands, he sawed slowly and precisely .

CHHK! CHHK! CHHK!

The black liquid sprayed everywhere . Crimson blood burst out . Flesh and the bones were reduced to mush and dust .