Plague Doctor

The first operation was performed by Chen Wenwei. The operating room was located in a Grade 1 special clean operating room in the Neurosurgery Department on the 10th floor of the surgical building.

Level 1 is the highest level of air cleanliness in the operating room, with the least dust particles and the lowest bacterial concentration. It is suitable for operations such as brain and organ transplantation.

At this time, in the spacious operating room, Chen Wenwei, who was dressed in hospital clothes, was lying on the operating bed in a supine position, sleeping due to general anesthesia. Compared with that in the early morning, the patient's young face was haggard and shrunken, and the cheeks on both sides were even more sunken.

The anesthetist and nurses were waiting. After a while, the clean corridor door was opened, and a group of medical staff wearing sterile clothes walked in.

Gu Jun was walking among them, looking at the brightly lit and well-equipped surgical environment around him, he felt a little 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 physical condition is stable." Anesthesiologist Guo Jun, who was sitting next to the anesthesia machine, told 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. The signal lines showed that Chen Wenwei was in a state of deep hypnosis, and the graphics looked just like ordinary people. However, no one here has any experience with whether the operation will cause any stress response in the body.

The standard surgical method of lobotomy originates from a backward era and cannot guarantee accuracy, which is why it has been criticized.

But now there are some more mature methods combined with more advanced imaging equipment, such as using MRI to accurately locate targets, which greatly improves the accuracy of surgery.

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

Just because patients with nightmare disease, even if their condition is still in a mild stage, their immunity and functional status are not as good as before, so the surgical plan must take into account postoperative recovery. Therefore, the plan is to combine new technology with old methods, which can effectively destroy the white matter of the brain lobes and cause less trauma.

However, the chief surgeon, Sikou Xian, and the first assistant, Song Yilong, were all ready to prepare.

Although each of these middle-aged men is the best neurosurgery expert in Dongzhou Medical Department, even the fourth assistant is no exception. It is commonplace to perform various craniotomies, but they lack experience in this barbaric method. There is no room for error.

"Just treat it like a normal surgery." Si Kouxian encouraged everyone and himself.

Everyone settled down next to the operating table - there are different positions for neurosurgery. The surgeon stands above the patient's head, the anesthesia machine is on the left, and the power system and instrument table are on the right. Gu Jun stood behind the equipment nurse and looked around.

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

Countless researchers were watching silently, including Professor Qin and Tang Zhifeng.

Soon, images of the start of the operation appeared on each screen. Chen Wenwei's head was fixed by a three-pin head frame and rotated 90 degrees to the opposite side of the surgical approach. His hair had already been shaved, and half of his head was covered by EEG monitoring electrodes. The cover avoids the surgical department.

The blood flowed out and was stopped. They first made scalp incisions and then performed subcutaneous dissection...

Gu Jun had been watching intently from a distance. He had read some information before coming here and had attended the pre-operative meeting just now, so he knew what was being done.

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

At present, Sikou, the surgeon, uses a monopolar electric knife to incise the temporal fascia, temporalis muscle, and periosteum layer, then separates the corresponding small muscle skin flap under the periosteum, and fixes it with a retractor, exposing the skull inside.

"Craniotomy drill." The surgeon said, and the nurse gave the instrument.

Si Kouxian took a midasrex craniotomy drill equipped with a small drill bit in his hand, leaned over and aimed it at the patient's skull, which is directly above the ear canal, and prepared to drill the hole. The drilling position has been accurately calculated. .

The sound of the buzzing electric drill broke the silence in many places such as the operating room and the command center, and an undercurrent of tension was surging.

The operating room was full of veterans who were used to doing craniotomy, and the one who was least used to it was Gu Jun. Manipulating the head was always more chilling than the limbs.

He just looked at the high-speed drill bit that was spinning so hard that he couldn't see clearly, bit by bit, biting through the patient's hard skull...

Then one of the assistants, Song Yilong, used a curette to clean out the bone fragments under the drill hole, while Si Kouxian took a "lobotomy", which was like a large screwdriver with a long handle that was connected to the brain. It is a thin probe with an opening on the side and no tip.

But there is a wire ring hidden in the opening at its end. As long as the handle is pulled, the wire will pop out and rotate in a circle, cutting off the nerve fibers.

At this time, Si Kouxian inserted the cutter probe into the patient's brain from the drill hole, and stopped when it reached a preset position.

Song Yilong took the probe of the surgical navigation system and explored it. The computer screen next to him combined the MRI image data obtained before the operation in real time to display the brain's condition in a 3D image, allowing Si Kouxian to accurately adjust the position of the cutter probe.

"This is a Nobel Prize-winning surgery."

Si Kouxian murmured, then pulled the handle of the cutter, and there was a click. The invisible wire ring popped out and destroyed a part of the patient's frontal lobe...

One place is completed on this side, and there are two more positions.

The air in the operating room seems to be condensed

, Gu Jun looked expressionless. It was really impossible to predict what kind of brain damage this would cause.

But he knew that if progress wasn't made in treating nightmare sickness, this would be just the beginning, with many more surgeries to come.

Bilateral cingulum destruction, cerebral hemispherectomy...

In short, the Department of Medicine will cut a little bit here and a little bit there on the patient's brain to see what happens.

This seems contrary to humanity, but patients have no choice, and neither do their doctors.

Faced with a plague for which there was no cure, they suddenly returned to the old bloody and ignorant era.

Si Kouxian hadn't adjusted the cutter yet. Suddenly, a beeping alarm sounded throughout the operating room, and a situation they were worried about occurred. Anesthesiologist Guo Jun said anxiously: "The patient's heart rate is too fast! The EEG has also deviated. This..." The data on the screens of the monitoring instruments were all messed up.

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

"Ah." The equipment nurse was the first to scream, as well as the circulating nurses and other doctors, whose expressions changed drastically.

On the operating table, Chen Wenwei, who had a hole in his head and a cutter inserted into his head, suddenly opened his eyes and made a sound. His eyes were only blurry and cloudy...

"Command center, patient...the patient has woken up." Si Kouxian's first reaction to this scene was also stunned.

Although there are already plans for patients to have stress reactions - these are just functional changes under anesthesia.

For a long time, a very small number of patients will suddenly wake up during various operations, feel pain, and hear the voices of medical staff, but they cannot move or speak. Because the anesthesia has lost its effectiveness, but there are still muscle relaxants, the patient cannot control his muscles.

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

"Wen Wei?" The expression on Sikou Xianguo's face stabilized and he immediately asked: "Wen Wei, can you hear me?"

But looking over there, Gu Jun felt a rapidly growing sense of danger in his heart...

"Ph..." Chen Wenwei's body did not move, and his head did not twist, but his face became strangely pale, and his eyes were bloodshot as if blood was about to flow out. The hoarse and strange voice continued to speak from his mouth, "nglui... …nafh…cthulhu…”

Gu Jun suddenly stared, and he could hear those words!

"ph'ngluimgl'nafhcthulhur'lyehgah'naglfhtagn"

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

"Ah!!" Si Kouxian and Song Yilong, who were nearest, suddenly screamed. Their hands instinctively pressed their painful heads. Their faces, which were mostly covered by masks, instantly turned pale, and their bodies were already crumbling.

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

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