Chapter 1395: 【1395】Sense of weight
Doctor Fang snapped back to reality, realizing that his words were embarrassing, and quickly stepped aside without saying another word.
Xiao Shimei’s thought process was very clear, which reassured Jin Tianyu, who decisively said, "Okay, you guys come over."
Allowing two somewhat capable medical students to explore the path, he would follow up, which would surely increase the success rate.
Yu Xuexian was helpless; at this point, he definitely couldn’t stop them.
Xie Wanying and Pan Shihua immediately went to scrub in before the surgery.
The nurse helped them put on lead aprons and surgical gowns. The lead aprons mainly protect the parts of the human body most susceptible to ionizing radiation. The organs in the human body most sensitive to radiation are the thyroid, eye lenses, breast, and testes... Therefore, a set of radiation protection clothing can include a lead cap, lead glasses, lead collar, lead vest, lead skirt, and even lead trousers. Medical personnel in the intervention room must wear personal thermoluminescent dosimeters within the lead apron to monitor the amount of radiation received, and every six months, the hospital sends these to a specialized agency to evaluate if a person is suitable to continue working in radiation-related medical work. Since Xie Wanying and the others were temporarily entering the operating room to help, they didn’t wear any.
The weight of a set of lead aprons is truly heavy. If weighed, a person should appear twenty pounds heavier.
Yue Wentong and Feng Yicong stood on the side, worried for their classmates who wore radiation protection suits as if going into battle.
Feng Yicong complained to Student Pan, "Why is it you?"
Yingying didn’t call on him, an internist, to help, choosing the surgical student instead, leaving him frustrated.
Pan Shihua said, "I have been to cardiovascular internal medicine for training, you and the class monitor have not. Yingying mainly considered this point."
"Alright, you don’t need to say nice things to comfort me and the class monitor." Feng Yicong pouted, "Next time, Yingying will surely call me to help, not you."
Pan Shihua smiled and looked towards the class monitor.
Yue Wentong thought that, as a class monitor, he could only watch as two classmates took risks. It seemed he was a bit useless as a class monitor.
"If we can’t do it, it’s up to you, class monitor," Xie Wanying said frankly to the class monitor. He had always been the big support for the whole class.
Upon hearing her joking words, the three male students instantly froze like popsicles: If you can’t do it, how could the class monitor?
Yingying, please don’t joke. Feng Yicong wiped cold sweat from his brow and cautiously glanced at the class monitor’s expression.
Yue Wentong’s rigid, ice-cold face suddenly cracked into a smile, the kind that ran deep.
Her joke wasn’t very funny and rather cold, but he felt her kindness.
"Go on, I’ll wait for you outside on behalf of the counselor," Yue Wentong nodded at the two students about to enter the surgical room, his expression serious, encouraging them, and at the same time stating his commitment as class monitor to be here as their support.
Having the class monitor as backup made a difference. The two classmates walked confidently to the radiology room.
Stepping into the radiology room for the first time, Xie Wanying took a breath and regulated her breathing rate.
Interventional surgery is different from traditional surgery.
Firstly, there is the weight sense, the lead apron they wore; the weight bearing on the doctors would increase over time. The heaviness would put pressure on the entire body. Doctors are just like any ordinary people. Under room conditions of 25 degrees, carrying something weighing these twenty pounds would quickly lead to backache, shoulders like bearing heavy stones, followed by energy consumption and physical stamina decline.
Physical stamina weakening can make the human brain’s thinking become dull. Like Doctor Fang, who probably received a sudden notice at night to perform this emergency surgery, not having had time to eat dinner before rushing to the operating table, leading to exhaustion and consequentially affecting his mental response.