Chapter 131: Lobotomy

The first operation was performed by Chen Wenwei, and the operating room was located in a Class I special clean operating room in the Department of Neurosurgery on the 10th floor of the Surgery Building.

Class I is the highest level of air cleanliness in the operating room, with the least dust particles and the lowest bacterial concentration, which is suitable for cranial and organ transplantation surgeries.

At this time, in the spacious operating room, Chen Wenwei, who was dressed in a hospital gown, was already lying on the operating table in a supine position, sleeping because of general anesthesia. Compared to the early hours of the morning, the patient's young face was haggard and shrunken, and his cheeks were even more sunken.

Anesthesiologists and nurses waited, and a short time the clean hallway door opened, and a group of medical staff dressed in sterile gowns entered.

Gu Jun walked among them, looking at the brightly lit and well-equipped surgical environment around him, he was quite touched and came back.

It's just that...... Although this is not a simple stone path, the things that will be carried out are even more barbaric.

"The patient's signs are stable." Guo Jun, an anesthesiologist sitting next to the anesthesia machine, said to them, "The anesthetic can still suppress the patient's central nervous system." ”

Gu Jun looked at the electroencephalogram on the screen of the anesthesia monitoring system, and the signal lines showed that Chen Wenwei was in a state of deep hypnosis, and the graphics looked no different from ordinary people. However, whether the operation will cause any stress response in the body, none of them have any experience here.

The standard surgical method of lobotomy originated from the backward era and could not guarantee accuracy, which is also the reason why it has been criticized.

But now there are some more mature methods and more advanced imaging equipment, such as the use of MRI to pinpoint the target, which greatly improves the accuracy of the operation.

Resection of this area will still be used in the case of contusions, tumor lesions, etc.

It is only because even if the condition of the nightmare patient is still in the mild stage, the immunity and functional status are not as good as before, and the surgical plan should take into account the postoperative recovery. Therefore, the solution is to combine the old with new technology, which can effectively destroy the white matter of the lobes and is less traumatic.

However, the chief swordsman, Kou Xian, Yizhu Song Yilong and others, were all ready to fight.

Although each of these middle-aged men is the best neurosurgeon in the Dongzhou Medical Department, even the four assistants are no exception, and it is common to do all kinds of craniotomy, they are inexperienced in this barbaric way, and there is no room for the slightest mistake.

"Let's just do it like a normal operation." Si Kouxian encouraged everyone and encouraged himself.

Everyone settled down on the side of the operating table - there are different positions for neurosurgery, the surgeon stands above the patient's head, the anesthesia machine is on the left side, and the power system and instrument table are set on the right side. And Gu Jun was standing behind the instrument nurse and watching.

At the same time, through the camera with a shadowless lamp above the operating table, as well as multiple surveillance cameras around it, the situation here is being broadcast in real time on the large screen of a conference room on this floor, as well as the research center in the psychiatric building, and the research institute at the headquarters.

Countless researchers are silently watching, and Professor Qin and Tang Zhifeng are also among them.

Soon, the image of the beginning of the operation was displayed on each screen, Chen Wenwei's head was fixed by a three-nail head frame and rotated 90 degrees to the opposite side of the surgical approach, his hair had already been shaved, and the electroencephalogram monitoring electrode sensing half hood avoided the surgical department.

The blood flowed, the blood was stopped, and they made a scalp incision and then a subcutaneous dissection......

Gu Jun had been watching intently from afar, he had already read some information before coming, and he had also participated in the preoperative meeting just now, so he knew what he was doing.

A small hole will be drilled on each side of the patient's head, and the surgery will be performed in three different positions on each side.

At present, the chief knife of Si Kou used a monopolar electric knife to cut the temporal fascia, temporal muscle, and periosteal layer, and then separated the corresponding small muscle flap under the periosteum, and fixed it with a retractor, and the skull inside was exposed.

"Craniotomy." The surgeon said that the instrument nurse would give it.

Si Kouxian took a Midas Rex craniotomy drill equipped with a small drill bit in his hand, and leaned over to aim at the patient's skull, which is directly above the ear canal, ready to punch the hole, and the drilling position has been accurately calculated.

The sound of a sizzling electric drill sounded, breaking the silence of many places such as the operating room and the command center at the same time, and a tense undercurrent was surging.

In the operating room, there are old fritters who are used to craniotomy, and the least accustomed is Gu Jun, who always makes people feel more chilling than his limbs by putting his hands and feet on his head.

He just looked at the high-speed drill bit that turned indistinctly, and bit by bit it pierced the patient's hard skull......

Then Song Yilong used a curette to clean up the bone fragments under the drilled hole, and Si Kouxian took over a "white matter cutter", which was like a big screwdriver, with a long and thin probe sticking into the brain on the handle, and the side was open, and there was no tip.

But it hides a wire loop in the end opening, and as soon as the handle is pulled, the wire will pop out and turn around under the pull action, cutting off the nerve fibers.

At this time, Si Kouxian put the cut-off probe from the borehole into the patient's brain, reached a preset position, and stopped first.

Song Yilong probed with the probe of the surgical navigation system, and the computer screen next to him combined with the MRI image data obtained before the operation in real time to show the situation of the brain with 3D images, so that Si Kouxian could adjust the position of the cut-off probe accurately.

"This is a Nobel Prize-winning operation."

Si Kouxian muttered, and as soon as he pulled the handle of the cutter, there seemed to be a click, and the invisible wire loop popped out, destroying a part of the patient's prefrontal lobe......

This side is done with one place, and there are two more positions.

The air in the operating room seemed to be condensed, and Gu Jun looked expressionless, it was really impossible to predict what kind of brain damage would be caused by this.

But he knew that if there was no progress in the treatment of nightmares, it would only be the beginning, and that there would be many surgeries to be done.

bilateral cingulate disfigurement, cerebral hemispherectomy......

In short, the medical department will cut a little bit of the patient's brain here and there, and see what happens.

It seems to be a violation of humanitarianism, but patients have no choice, and neither do their doctors.

In the face of the plague that could not find a cure, in an instant, they returned to the old era of bloody ignorance.

Si Kouxian hadn't adjusted the cut-off yet, and suddenly at this time, a sudden alarm sounded in the operating room, and a situation that they were worried about appeared. Anesthesiologist Guo Jun said urgently: "The patient's heart rate is too fast! The EEG has also deviated, which ...... "the data on the screen of those monitoring instruments has been messed up."

Before everyone could do anything, a hoarse and strange whimper sounded from the patient's head.

"Ahh The instrument nurse was the first to scream, and the itinerant nurses and other doctors changed their faces drastically.

Chen Wenwei, who had a hole in his head on the operating table and had a cutter inserted, suddenly opened his eyes and made a sound, and there was only confusion in his eyes......

"Command Center, Patient ...... The patient woke up. Si Kouxian's first reaction to this scene was also stunned.

Although there are early plans for patients to have a stress response - it is also a functional change under anesthesia.

For a long time, there are very few patients who will suddenly wake up during various surgeries, feel pain, and can hear the voice of medical staff, but they cannot move or speak. Because anesthetics are ineffective, but there are muscle relaxants, people can't control their muscles.

At this time, Chen Wenwei was able to open his eyes and speak.

"Wen Wei?" Si Kou Xian's face stabilized, and he immediately asked, "Wen Wei, can you hear it?" ”

But Gu Jun looked at it, and a sense of danger that quickly became strong in his heart......

"Ph......" Chen Wenwei's body didn't move, his head didn't twist, but his face became pale, his eyes were bloodshot as if he was about to bleed, and the hoarse and strange voice continued to come out of his mouth, "nglui...... nafh…… Cthulhu……”

Gu Jun suddenly stared, and he could hear that it was that sentence!

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn”

Almost at the same time, he felt a huge spiritual shock wave rushing like a tsunami wave, and it burst out from Chen Wenwei.

"Ahh Si Kouxian and Song Yilong, who were closest to each other, suddenly screamed, and their hands instinctively pressed down on their painful heads, and their faces immediately turned pale.

Immediately afterwards, the second assistant, the third assistant, the fourth assistant, the anesthesiologist and a group of nurses, all the medical staff in the operating room except for Gu Jun were all overwhelmed by the violent pain!