Chen Cang turned to a doctor beside him and said, "Please hand me the needle holder."
The man, in his thirties, nodded in acknowledgement.
Chen Cang first used the hemostat to tighten the end of the tendon, then he flipped the hemostat to reveal the cut surface.
He quickly exclaimed, "The needle, please!"
Chen Cang swiftly adjusted the tendon's axis. At 3mm from the far cut end, he inserted the needle at a slanted angle, corresponding to the suture point of the near end, and passed it through symmetrically in a crisscross pattern three times.
This series of movements dumbfounded the doctor holding the needle holder.
Almost without hesitation, the entire suturing process was extremely fast.
It wasn't that Chen Cang didn't want to slow down; he wanted to utilize the tension gathered by pulling closer to minimize the tendon suturing loss.
The tendon of a severed finger is different from that of a regular tendon suture.
