Chapter 443 - 264: Good News: Advancing to the Finals of the National Cardiac Surgery Skills Competition
Chapter 443: Chapter 264: Good News: Advancing to the Finals of the National Cardiac Surgery Skills Competition
"You know the surgery I’m talking about—the one involving the fourth-generation bioresorbable polymer vascular stent replacement. In terms of the procedure itself and the lead surgeon’s skill, it was nothing special. The video only got in because it rode on the coattails of a new product that was prominent and irreplaceable."
"The stent itself is certainly a huge contribution to the development of cardiac surgery, but from the standpoint of our national competition’s original intent and comprehensive scoring criteria, relying on that one feature alone isn’t enough."
Ren Anyi admired Wu Ting, but he felt the young man was still a bit lacking in overall skill. To get selected as one of the twelve from the East District by using such a gimmick was already a great honor in itself.
Therefore, Ren Anyi didn’t give Wu Ting much thought.
Li Xun likewise gave the file for Wu Ting’s preliminary selection video a cursory glance before setting it aside.
After all, he was researching double outlet right ventricle (DORV) with complete atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD), a rare congenital heart disease.
The biventricular anatomical repair procedure was extremely difficult, and its surgical mortality rate remained stubbornly high.
This time, Li Xun was researching a brand-new two-patch repair method using a vascular graft, proposing a novel "comma-shaped" trimming technique, and utilizing autologous pericardial repair...
The entire surgery involved a complex series of procedures, including VSD patch repair, atrioventricular valvuloplasty, mitral cleft suture, and pulmonary artery reconstruction with a vascular graft.
In Director Ren and Li Xun’s opinion, this Surgical Technique, which their team had improved, would become a new and ideal method for biventricular repair of congenital heart disease.
Beyond the successful development and application of this Surgical Technique, Li Xun himself was a comprehensive talent in the field of cardiac surgery, excelling in both clinical practice and theoretical knowledge. This made him a true all-rounder, capable of handling the various random challenges of the upcoming finals.
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While the contestants began their intensive training to prepare for the competition, expert professors from top institutions across the country were also receiving invitations from the organizers.
Before the competition officially started, these expert professors were to travel to Qinghe City Fuwai Hospital ahead of time to attend a pre-competition training session for the National Cardiac Surgery Skills Competition.
These experts were all selected from institutions that had no direct conflicts of interest—that is, none of their hospitals had contestants who had been selected.
Director Pang, the head of Cardiac Surgery at Jinggang University Affiliated Second Hospital, had also received an invitation.
Director Pang was thrilled and gratified by Wu Ting’s selection. It was just a shame he had to attend the judges’ pre-competition training; otherwise, he would have been able to observe Wu Ting’s second-stage surgery on Lou Musaang.
After all, Wu Ting’s second-stage surgery had drawn inspiration from Director Pang’s own ideas, an iterative improvement built upon his original concepts.
Since he couldn’t watch it live, Director Pang was now looking forward to the finals, where Wu Ting would present the video of this new second-stage surgery.
If he could completely cure Lou Musaang’s rare and complex vascular malformation and also introduce a brand-new aortic valve replacement technique, Director Pang had no doubt Wu Ting could rank in the nation’s top three!
’What a remarkable young man.’
Director Pang knew a bit about Wu Ting. He was well aware that Wu Ting had only been studying under Shen Siyuan and Shao Yuqiao for a short time. Furthermore, Wu Ting’s primary specialty was Hepatic Tumor Surgery; cardiac surgery was merely his secondary area of research.
After a moment of admiration, Director Pang turned his attention to the materials for the upcoming pre-competition training.
This time, the Fuwai organizers were clearly taking the national skills competition very seriously.
The main purpose of the training was to familiarize the invited experts with the competition’s format and scope.
Director Pang wasn’t particularly concerned with the competition’s design, format, or scope.
However, he strongly agreed with the competition’s underlying objectives.
The competition’s purpose was to explore better methods for surgical training.
1. Building a solid surgical foundation and mastering the fundamentals.
2. Standardized operational procedures.
3. Excellent team coordination.
These were the most fundamental and most important scoring criteria for the surgical video competition.
The surgical videos themselves were all carefully selected, representative cases in cardiac surgery, intended to serve as the best learning models for clinicians nationwide.
The competition itself was a nationwide, top-tier platform for academic and clinical exchange.
The surgical videos from the final twelve contestants would be compiled into the year’s best cardiac surgery teaching videos, to be promoted, studied, and shared nationwide.
These finalists would naturally become star doctors in the field of cardiac surgery!
To be honest, if he weren’t too old, Director Pang would have wanted to roll up his sleeves and compete himself. Just thinking about it was enough to make his blood boil with excitement!
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In the operating room of the Cardiac Surgery department at Jinggang University Affiliated First Hospital.
As this would be the surgical video for the finals, the procedure was kept confidential among a small internal group to maintain secrecy before the competition.
Wu Ting, Director Shao, and the others took this surgery very seriously.
They held several pre-operative consultations and also formally briefed Lou Musaang.
The final surgical team was as follows: Wu Ting as lead surgeon, Director Shao Yuqiao as first assistant, Director Shen Siyuan as second assistant, and Huang Dian providing support.
After Lou Musaang was placed under general anesthesia, the surgery officially began.
Wu Ting skillfully made an incision into Lou Musaang’s right femoral artery.