Chapter 229: Chapter 151: Is He Really the Biological Father? Surgery Begins

Seeing the orthopedic attending agree, everyone else nodded as well.

Throughout the hospital, throughout Jiangcheng, there’s probably no better candidate.

“Alright, for now, let’s tentatively set these two surgical plans. We’ll decide once the family arrives.”

Seeing this, Zhou Xianren immediately looked at Xiao Jing,

“I’ll go find Qin Feng and let him know. Once the surgery is confirmed, we must prepare immediately.”

After speaking, he turned and left the conference room, heading towards the general outpatient department.

…

minutes later,

A man walked into the emergency hall at a leisurely pace, looking around while holding a cigarette.

“Hello sir, smoking is not allowed in the hall. Do you need help with anything?”

A nurse saw him and walked over to advise him.

“Oh, hello. Did a woman and a little boy come in due to a traffic accident earlier?”

Upon hearing this, the man quickly extinguished the cigarette butt and said with a smile,

“I’m their family member.”

“You’re family?”

Hearing this, the nurse was stunned and couldn’t help but take a closer look at him,

“Please follow me.”

“Alright, thank you!”

The man expressed his thanks and followed.

As soon as he entered the rescue room, he saw the little boy on the hospital bed and rushed in, crying loudly.

“Son, my son! Daddy is late!”

The sound startled the busy nurses and doctors, including Xiao Jing, in the rescue room.

When they regained their composure, they saw a man already leaning over the side of the bed, tearfully caressing the boy’s face.

His state showed profound emotion.

…

“Are you the family member of the patient, Zhao Ranran?”

Xiao Jing walked over, looked at the man, and asked.

“Yes, I’m his biological father.”

The man turned his head to look at her, his face contorted in grief as he replied,

“Doctor, how is my son doing?”

“The patient’s condition isn’t very good right now. Please come out, and I’ll explain it to you…”

Xiao Jing said to the man, then turned and walked out.

Upon hearing this, the man got up to follow, wiping his tears as he exited the rescue room.

Just as the door closed, the little boy gazed at the nurse beside him with his watery eyes, seemingly wanting to say something.

“What’s wrong?”

The nurse saw this and approached him, speaking softly and gently.

“Where’s my mom?”

The little boy asked.

“Your mom is in orthopedics. You’ll see her after your surgery.”

The nurse smiled and offered comfort, but the boy’s next words left the nurses surprised.

“Sister, I don’t want him here, is that okay?”

“Him? Do you mean… your dad?”

“He’s not my dad.”

…

In the orthopedic operating room,

The woman awakened slightly, and the doctors were preparing to anesthetize her.

“Doctor, where’s my son?”

The woman, enduring the pain in her arm, looked at the doctor beside her.

“Don’t worry, your son is still receiving treatment. The doctors are discussing the surgical plan and will operate on him shortly.”

The doctor smiled and said,

“The emergency has notified the child’s father to come and sign.”

“What?!”

Upon hearing this, the woman shouted loudly and then started struggling,

“No… Ah! No, he can’t sign!”

“Don’t move, don’t move!”

The nurse hurriedly reached out to restrain her.

“Doctor, I beg you, don’t let his father come.”

The woman’s arm was in severe pain, and she lay back down, urgently shouting.

“Why is that? Right now, only the child’s father can sign?”

The doctors were confused and couldn’t help but ask.

“The child’s father is a bastard! You mustn’t let him ruin the child!

Doctor, I’m begging you, can I sign or can my mom sign? Anything but him~”

As she spoke, her voice trembled slightly, and tears flowed down her cheeks.

“This….”

The chief surgeon furrowed his brows sensing something amiss, thought for a moment, then nodded,

“Alright, I’ll help contact the emergency. You stay calm and lie down.”

With that, he gestured to the circulating nurse to make a call to the emergency.

…

In the emergency room,

“Why?! He’s my son! I have the right to sign!”

The man shouted angrily, his face filled with rage,

“What is that woman trying to do? What’s she trying to do!”

Hmm?

What’s going on?

In the general outpatient consultation room, Qin Feng and Zhou Xianren were confirming the surgery matter.

Suddenly, a man’s angry shout was heard outside. Just as they were about to get up, the office door opened.

“What’s going on?”

“Director Zhou, it’s about the little boy who was just brought in. His mother refused to let the child’s father sign in orthopedics.”

The head nurse said.

“What’s the situation?”

Qin Feng and Zhou Xianren exchanged glances, then got up and walked outside.

They saw, right at the rescue room door, a man was shouting at Xiao Jing with all his might.

“Director Zhou, I’ll go in the rescue room and check on the child.”

Qin Feng didn’t get involved; this was an emergency issue and not appropriate for him, the director of the Transplant Center and General Outpatient Department, to intervene.

He then walked into the rescue room to see the child on the bed and his foot.

Even with all his world-class surgical experience, he couldn’t help but frown at the sight and felt heartache.

This foot, the injury is really severe!

Though he had seen the CT images, this was his first time facing the impact of a degloving injury directly, which was truly unsettling.

In an instant, Qin Feng recalled more than three targeted surgical plans in his mind.

But none of the outcomes were good!

Including the two plans proposed by the joint departments currently, neither were highly feasible.

Amputation is the most direct approach, but this also needs to be considered based on the patient’s actual condition, and it was immediately dismissed.

After filtering the options, only two surgical plans were left, both using in-situ suturing.

One involves multiple layered surgeries using the world’s most advanced medical techniques, performing gradual suturing of the patient’s foot, prioritizing blood vessels and nerves to restore blood supply and nerve sensation to the foot.

The tendons and skin layers are sutured later, continuously stimulated with medication to maintain activity and prevent necrosis.

After the blood vessel and nerve begin to show recovery, they are cut again for resuture and regrowth, requiring at least 4 such procedures.

Although its success rate is much higher than current global standards, it is extremely expensive.

Most of the equipment and active medication needed for the surgery must be imported from the Beacon Nation, making it unaffordable for ordinary people.

In one word, expensive!

The second in-situ suturing option involves a single surgery to suture tendons, foot nerves, subcutaneous nerves, and skin layers, the complexity of which far exceeds what normal doctors can handle.

To outsiders, this possibility may seem quite low.

Even the nation’s top orthopedists are likely incapable of performing such a precisely long surgery.

However, Qin Feng wants to try~

Because only he possesses unmatched precision in suturing and endurance!

The main issue for him is post-surgery recovery.

As long as recovery goes well, the foot can be completely preserved, and though it won’t bear load in the future, normal walking shouldn’t be a problem.

Bam!

“Since you won’t allow me to sign, I’ll transfer my son to another hospital for treatment!”

A man’s voice suddenly erupted outside, pounding on the table, seemingly unable to negotiate.

Qin Feng judged that the little boy’s foot had less than an hour before surgery would be imperative, otherwise, once cell activity is lost, even he would have no chance.

It can’t wait!

As he stepped out, he saw Zhou Xianren trying to pacify things.

“Sir, I understand how you feel. Let me make a call to confirm, okay?”

After speaking, Zhou Xianren called the orthopedics department.

He learned that the child’s grandmother was on her way, but it was difficult to catch a cab late at night, and it would take at least another hour for her to reach the hospital.

Zhou Xianren didn’t hang up the phone, but looked over to Qin Feng.

“How about it? Can we proceed?”

“We can, but it needs to happen quickly. We can’t wait an hour.” Qin Feng nodded, and Zhou Xianren understood the urgency, instructing the orthopedics operating room.

Two minutes later, the child’s mother finally relented, nodding with some reluctance, agreeing to let the man sign, but insisted that the surgery must aim to preserve the child’s left foot.

After all, they couldn’t wait for the grandmother, risking amputation without any hope.

Upon hearing this, the man joyfully nodded repeatedly, quickly signing the surgical consent form.

“Alright, we’ll proceed with the child’s surgery immediately. Hurry and take the form to pay the fees and complete the inpatient procedures.”

Xiao Jing handed the form to the man and said this.

As soon as she finished, the man froze for a moment, seemingly unwilling, standing there looking troubled.

“What? Don’t want to save your son?”

Xiao Jing’s eyes darkened, speaking angrily.

“No, no, I’ll go pay right now.”

The man awkwardly smiled, then turned around to head towards the registration and payment window.

Xiao Jing couldn’t help but roll her eyes at the man’s retreating back.

“I’ve never met such a person. Is this man really the boy’s biological father? He seemed so reluctant at the mention of money.”

“Alright, alright, don’t get involved in other people’s matters, and don’t say much,”

Zhou Xianren intervened, waving his hand,

“Quickly get the child to the operating room. Qin Feng, we’re counting on you.”

“Don’t worry,”

Qin Feng nodded, looking at Dr. Sun from orthopedics,

“Dr. Sun, you’ll be the first assistant, Xiao Jing the second assistant, prepare VSD (a vacuum sealing drainage technique, currently the most advanced treatment for various acute and chronic wounds).”

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone immediately moved into the operating room for washing and disinfection, the little boy was pushed into the surgical area.

Scrubbing, washing, putting on masks, sterile caps, entering the operating room, putting on sterile gown, gloves.

A series of preparation tasks were completed, with the instrument nurse and circulating nurse ready.

“Time: September 1st, 12:12 AM, patient Zhao Ranran, left foot degloving injury in-situ suturing surgery begins.”

Qin Feng checked the time, confirmed the vital signs, and began.

1% hydrogen peroxide soaking, povidone iodine disinfection, drapes, tourniquet applied.

“Scissors.”

Bang!

Surgical scissors fell into his hand, Qin Feng’s gaze changed, and he immediately pulled the torn muscles and skin towards one eye, while the outline of the foot bone was revealed to the other eye.

Next, the internal edge of the foot is longitudinally incised to fully remove debris and non-viable tissue from the skin and muscle tissues.

Foreign bodies and blood clots are removed, necrotic and suspected necrotic soft tissue is excised.

Then the skin on the dorsum of the foot is trimmed, full-thickness fat skin flap is extracted, along with thin-layer fat skin flap.

This is to ensure maximum suturing area, as long as a basic skin layer remains to allow normal healing.

Qin Feng’s hands move swiftly, even in such actions that require maximum preservation of skin area, maintaining absolute precision!

Each time the scissors close, they adhere to the edge of the damaged skin, without the slightest deviation.

The orthopedic Dr. Sun was stunned watching!

The surgery has only just begun!

Although he has seen Qin Feng’s surgical teaching video, since the entire hospital uses many of Qin Feng’s former teaching videos in each department now.

But standing next to Qin Feng, observing at such close proximity.

Even made his whole body shudder with goosebumps!

Absolutely incredible!

minutes…

minutes…

Ding~

“Dr. Sun, you handle the fracture fixation.”

Qin Feng dropped the scissors into the tray, turned his head to say.

“Me? Okay.”

Dr. Sun was taken aback for a moment before reacting and stepping forward to start his work,

“Rivets.”

Clang clang clang!

Then, the sound akin to decoration activity resonated inside the surgical room.

Starting to reconstruct the lateral fibular ligament, fix the fifth metatarsal head with Kirschner pins, reposition the fracture site.

Meanwhile,

The orthopedic operating room with the child’s mother also began.

There was only one figure at the payment window, handing in the form.

“The total is 5,873, how much would you like to pay first?”

The nurse glanced at the cost tally.

The man visibly startled upon hearing the number.

“That’s not right, the surgery just started, how is it so much money?

Wait, let me ask around.”

“Okay, but hurry!”

The nurse handed the form back.

The man took the form and left the window, looking left and right, pacing a couple of laps.

Disappear through the emergency entrance…

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