This means that the liver source for bed 18 is already known, and the operation will take place in these two days.
There are no organ transplant surgeries in General Surgery II because very few intestinal transplant surgeries are performed in China. The department is focused on economic efficiency. If there are few patients, we will definitely not do this business if we cannot save money. There are requirements for organ transplant surgeries, at least
It is necessary to establish relevant isolation wards in departments like hepatobiliary surgery and train specialized technical personnel. If there are not many such patients, it is equivalent to a waste of hospital beds.
Liver transplantation is different. There is a market demand for it, and it has always been among the top two categories of organ transplantation.
There is news that hospital leaders are considering establishing an organ transplant center to handle organ transplants in all departments. However, the development of domestic organ transplantation is limited at this stage, and many regulations are not perfect. There are few donor organs and operations cannot be performed. For example, a liver transplant takes one year
Only more than 200 liver transplants have been performed nationwide. The National Association of Liver Transplantation Association can perform 200 or 30 liver transplants within the year, which is the highest number.
It can be said that Xie Wanying knew that being able to encounter a liver transplant case when she first arrived was extremely lucky for any medical student who wants to study.
Obviously, the laparoscopic surgery technology that the general surgery department attaches great importance to is not the focus of the future development of hepatobiliary surgery.
Laparoscopy can only perform limited liver surgeries. Many liver disease patients who come to tertiary hospitals for medical treatment are critically ill and cannot undergo laparoscopy and can only undergo laparotomy. Liver failure can be treated with artificial livers. In the end, the only way to save the lives of these patients is
Liver Transplantation.
It is said that there are almost no intern trainees in the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery who can arrange to learn liver transplantation. The main force is training doctors. Most of the training doctors are regular doctors from other hospitals, which once again illustrates the high threshold for coming here to learn organ transplantation.
There is a dedicated organ transplant team for organ transplantation. In the National Association of Hepatobiliary Surgery, there is an internal team dedicated to organ transplantation. When the number of cases in a year is very few, this team is not large and it is a small trial.
Specifically, it is led by Deputy Director Xue, the chief physician of the department, and the following members are mainly the second group of doctors in the department led by Tao Zhijie.
Apart from the skill of the surgeon, the most critical point in liver transplant surgery is to obtain the liver source.
Domestic liver sources have always been in short supply. In fact, the liver source can be a living liver, and part of the liver is donated by the patient's relatives to the patient. If the relatives do not donate, they can only wait for organ donors to donate after brain death. The latter can only wait in a long queue. This is even more obvious.
The source of liver is as scarce as gold and diamonds.
"When the time comes to pick up the liver source, you must put safety first." Tao Zhijie always told the doctors in the team, "Don't worry. Once there is a car accident, the liver source is gone, and the patient's life is also gone.
.The worst part is that your own lives are more important to me and the hospital."
"Yes." Qiu Ruiyun agreed.
It can be seen that the doctor who went to retrieve the liver source had already determined that it was him.
"You appoint a new person to go with you." Tao Zhijie gave him a choice.
"Can't the two newcomers come with me?" Qiu Ruiyun took the opportunity to joke.
"Of course not." Tao Zhijie smiled back at him.
"Thank you Wanying."
Dr. Qiu called her name. Xie Wanying immediately put down her chopsticks and said, "Yes."
"Eat, eat." Others noticed that she had been concentrating on eating.
Xie Wanying chewed slowly and carefully. Because she concentrated on eating, she did not eat too slowly.
"Xiao Song will enter the operating room when the time comes." Tao Zhijie continued to arrange for the newcomers to come on stage.