Special Forces Medic-Chapter 859 - 832: Surgery (Part 3)

"Hmm, tomorrow is Monday. Arrange the party meeting for me, I'll personally shout." Xiao Zhenfeng sat on one side, knowing that this attack was not so simple. After the secret assassination of Yao Zheng, the northern district remained in turmoil. According to Flame Swallow's information, Xiao Lin and Hua Qingyi were in the northern district tracing the whereabouts of Fourth Master at that time. In other words, it was impossible for either of them to be the assassin of Hua Muyun, making it easy to identify the remaining suspects.

"Is Mr. Xiao going to personally chair the meeting?" Secretary Luo was taken aback; for the leader of the Xiao Family to chair a meeting meant it was of utmost importance.

"No, you will preside first. Arrange a room for me; I will observe for a while and then decide." The next stage of the surgery had already begun on the display screen. "The specific content of the meeting will be explained in detail after the surgery is completed."

"Yes!"

After the heart restarted beating, the first step in the surgery process was supposed to be simple, yet it was the hardest. The first task was to separate the steel bar embedded in the liver. During this separation, movements must be minimal to prevent causing unexpected expansive damage to the patient's liver; this part must be done with great caution and meticulous care.

Xiao Lin looked at the large accumulation of blood and clots in Hua Muyun's chest cavity and glanced at Mu Rongyun. "You take the suction to drain the blood from the patient's chest cavity."

Mu Rongyun silently picked up the suction device and began draining the blood from the patient's chest cavity. His swift actions carefully avoided important areas, while inspecting the internal condition simultaneously. "The left lung does not show significant damage, only a small incision." He glanced at Xiao Lin. "This isn't the cause of the significant bleeding in the chest cavity."

Xiao Lin understood Mu Rongyun's implication: besides the liver, there should be another major bleeding site in the chest cavity. During the earlier intrathoracic resuscitation, the heart wasn't moved; only the pericardium was cut open, and there hadn't been time to locate the bullet. Now the chest cavity was full of blood, and the existing wound must be repaired; locating the bullet became an issue.

"The patient's blood pressure is unstable, fluctuating up and down after initially rising to a stable value," the anesthesiologist reminded Xiao Lin and the others.

Xiao Lin instructed the circulating nurse to apply pressure for blood transfusion and, with Mu Rongyun's assistance in suction, explored Hua Muyun's liver, pierced by the steel bar. The operating room fell silent again, except for the rhythmic heart monitoring sound of the anesthetic machine and the low-pressure whirring of the ventilator.

Xiao Lin glanced at the values on the monitor. Performing surgery on a gunshot wound in this situation was exceptionally challenging. Gunshot surgeries are most feared for heavy bleeding and easy infection, while the liver was also stabbed, requiring immediate separation and repair of liver tissues.

"First handle the contusion found in front of us!" Xiao Lin said, frowning as he decided what to do with the blood-filled chest cavity.

Mu Rongyun suctioned the blood in the chest cavity swiftly, and soon Xiao Lin saw the pierced liver. The steel bar had penetrated the left lobe of the liver, with the entry point between the left outer leaf branches, upper branch, and lower branch, with fresh blood continuously flowing from the gap between the steel bar and liver contusion.

The chest cavity's excessive blood made it impossible to see blood vessels, complicating the separation. "There is too much blood, can't suction it all clean," Mu Rongyun stated the current situation plainly. Even if he suctioned, he couldn't instantaneously draw up the continuously emerging blood. His actions couldn't prevent the blood from seeping between the wound, though he might have found a method, but he wouldn't tell Xiao Lin directly. On the operating table, there was only one lead surgeon, and he was eager to see Xiao Lin's actions and adaptability. The circulating nurse stepped forward to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

"I know!" Xiao Lin responded, aware of Murong Yu's calmness while explaining; he knew this guy already had the next move in mind, which suited his personality perfectly. "Vascular clamp!" he shouted to the instrument master, knowing this guy was testing him— even if he didn't have a solution now, he believed this person would continue with the work.

He signaled Mu Rongyun to move the suction away from the location of interest. Then, Xiao Lin took the vascular clamp and quietly observed the liver. Blood was abundant and kept flowing outward. He inserted his left hand into the blood-filled chest cavity to explore, suddenly pausing and exhaling deeply, as his right hand, holding the hemostatic clamp, plunged into Hua Muyun's blood-filled chest cavity at lightning speed. At that moment, time seemed to freeze.

Mu Rongyun didn't have time to stop Xiao Lin; he stared at Xiao Lin's impulsive action in astonishment. He thought about how to avoid the blood but never expected this guy to act so recklessly, with a hint of provocation. Xiao Lin was extremely satisfied with the shock he brought to Mu Rongyun.

"Damn it, do you know what you're doing?" It was the first time during the surgery that everyone heard the airborne man's grinding voice against Xiao Lin, all of them staring wide-eyed at the two in front of them. Murong Yu wanted to stop it, but he couldn't, as he was still holding the steel bar to keep it balanced, with the other hand holding the suction device.

"I know very well what I'm doing!" Under the watchful eyes, Xiao Lin had already inserted the vascular clamp deep into the blood-filled chest cavity. A rigid vascular clamp, if it touched the patient's liver, would result in massive damage.

"Military doctor, there's too much blood in the chest cavity right now, we can't clearly see the liver tissue. If you clamp down randomly and fail to catch the portal vein clamp, it will cause a secondary injury to the liver." Tang Ji fully expressed his distrust in Xiao Lin's technique at this time. No matter what kind of doctor, regardless of their high skill, when facing surgery, one should be more cautious and not so reckless, considering several steps ahead to ensure infallibility. No doctor wishes for their patient to die on the operating table; that would be a major blow.

"Forensic Doctor Mu, please continue suction!" Xiao Lin was indifferent to Tang Ji's accusation, gesturing for Mu Rongyun to continue suctioning, and reached out to the Instrument Master for another vascular clamp.

After his initial surprise, Mu Rongyun regained his composure and no longer paid attention to Xiao Lin's request for another hemostatic clamp. He diligently and quickly sucked out the blood, and when Tang Ji wanted to say something else, he suddenly noticed the blood in the chest cavity was starting to decrease. His expression of distrust turned to surprise. He was unable to imagine how this young military doctor managed to do it, how he precisely clamped the vessel in a chest cavity filled with blood, with no visible tissues or vessels.

Just as Xiao Lin inserted the vascular clamp into the blood-filled chest cavity, an elder walked up outside and saw this scene on the screen. His mouth dropped open. "What is he doing? Is he really just inserting the vascular clamp like that? It's too ridiculous!" After saying this, he instructed the nurse beside him to prepare to change his clothes, as if he intended to go in.

"There are enough people inside, you don't need to go in." Xiao Zhenfeng, who had been sitting by the side, stopped this elder.

"Who are you and how did you get here?" The elder in a military uniform turned his head to look at the person stopping him, frowning. "Since when can people freely enter a military district's critical area?" Clearly, this sentence was blaming the nurse beside him. Xiao Zhenfeng did not speak. Secretary Luo had already whispered a few words in the elder's ear, and his face immediately twitched.

"Forgive my offense!" It took a while for him to finally say this, the arrogance he had earlier completely vanished.

"There are enough of them inside." Xiao Zhenfeng pointed to his side. "You going in will only create chaos."

"But the earlier behavior was so reckless. The person lying inside is the city party secretary. What if..."

"There's no 'what if'!" Xiao Zhenfeng interrupted the elder, not because he was blindly trusting his son, but because of his confidence in his son.

A miracle, a true miracle, a technology that's unbelievable and incomprehensible. The elder who had just sat down stood up again. On the screen, Mu Rongyun, acting as assistant, slowly suctioned the blood in the chest cavity clean, revealing the vascular clamp on the portal vein of the liver. The elder was excited, "Who is he?"

Xiao Zhenfeng did not answer this question. He sat there with his arms crossed.

The blood in the chest cavity had decreased to the point where the suction device was no longer needed, making the surgery much easier. Xiao Lin used another vascular clamp to tightly clamp the hepatic artery, cutting off the blood vessel supplying the liver. He began the task of removing the steel bar from Hua Muyun's left liver lobe.

"After the dissection, Forensic Doctor Mu, you will perform the liver suturing for Secretary Hua, while I investigate other damaged organs and that cursed bullet." Xiao Lin said to Murong Yu as he set about the dissection.

"Understood! Instrument Master, prepare the surgical tools I need."

Xiao Lin told the Instrument Master and the circulating nurse what to do. The Instrument Master nodded quickly in response to Xiao Lin's words, starting to sort and prepare the surgical tools needed for liver suturing. Even though this doctor was dispatched from above with an extremely poor attitude, work is work, and relying on work experience, the Instrument Master quickly handed over the necessary surgical tools.

On the other side, Xiao Lin couldn't bother with the suturing, placing full trust in Mu Rongyun to handle it. As long as there is any deviation in the undersigning, Hua Muyun would die on the operating table, and it would be considered a medical accident, with no one believing it was murder. With Mu Rongyun's gestures, he would definitely achieve perfection without revealing any flaws. From the moment Mu Rongyun took over the liver suturing work, Xiao Lin did not look at the situation there again but went to examine other bleeding and contused organs and the bullet. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Successfully removing the steel bar from the left lobe of the liver, Xiao Lin quickly installed the open chest device, entrusting the repair work to Mu Rongyun, while the original position where the steel bar was inserted in the left lobe left a large wound, continuously oozing fresh blood. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to cast recommendation votes and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation.)