Old he was preparing the equipment and medicine required for the surgery in the interventional surgery room. He had received a notice from Su Yun last night that he would be performing a thoracoscopies today.
At that time, he did not pay much attention to it. Thoracoscopies were just a very basic surgical technique. It was not like twenty years ago. Basically, doctors at the level of chief residents in Room 912 were already overused with thoracoscopies.
For an anesthetist, single-lung ventilation was a prerequisite skill to ensure a smooth thoracoscopy operation. Unlike laparoscopy, in which air had to be pumped into the abdominal cavity to create space for the surgery, thoracoscopy required the lung tissue to shrink so that there was a surgical field.
