"Doctor Fu has arrived."
The sliding door of the operating room opened.
Fu Xinheng, having washed his hands, entered the operating room with his arms held high, and a nurse helped him into surgical scrubs. Meanwhile, he immediately began inquiring about the procedure: "So, Dr. Cao, has the bleeding been stopped?"
"It's stopped, it's stopped," the anesthesiologist interrupted, eager to update him.
His eyes scanned the patient's blood pressure and heart rate on the monitor, both were relatively stable. Fu Xinheng approached the operating table and said, "Let me take over."
On the other side, Cao Yong was already prepared for handover and vacated the Chief Surgeon's position for him.
Fu Xinheng took his place, donned surgical loupes to carefully inspect the opened chest cavity, and saw the esophagus pierced by the fish bone. From this vantage point, it was indeed a near miss from the adjacent aortic arch.
