In the sterile operating room, Thompson and a group of assistants wear disposable surgical gowns and stand under a shadowless lamp.
And the central position around them is Luo Jincheng, who has been in a coma for a long time, since Zhang Heng escaped, he has been completely in a vegetative state, at this time his body has long been emaciated, his shape is erect, and saliva flows out from the corners of his mouth from time to time, and now after taking anesthetics, he has fallen asleep.
At this time, he was lying on an operating table, his whole body was immobilized, and his head was set up in mid-air by the alloy shelf that would only be used for brain replacement surgery.
The whole operating room has a solemn atmosphere, the automated surgical machine is pushed in, one of the assistants calmly sterilizes the surgical equipment, while the other assistants are preparing the brain culture medium liquid, and some are checking all the instruments and medicines that may be needed.
And all of this is clearly displayed from the high-definition cameras in the four corners of the operating room.
At this moment, Zhang Heng was sitting in front of the screen, looking at everything in the operating room, and seeing that everyone was almost ready, he asked into the microphone, "Professor Thompson, what are the chances of success of this operation?"
"Less than 10 percent."
Thompson's face was flat, and as the chief surgeon, he sat in a lounge chair to recharge his batteries after being in a state of preparation from the beginning, and it was a long battle.
At this time, when he heard Zhang Heng's inquiry from the loudspeaker, he suddenly spoke.
"Judging from his CT images, his brain damage is even worse than I expected, so it's better not to get your hopes up."
Zhang Heng was speechless for a moment, "Is it so serious?"
Although he was mentally prepared, the seriousness of Luo Jincheng's condition was still beyond his imagination.
"A person has about tens of billions of brain cells, and each brain cell has about a few hundred cranial nerves, and each nerve has about a few hundred synapses, and each synapse has hundreds to thousands of proteins."
Thompson blily explains, "A brain cell acts like a mainframe computer, and a synapse acts like a computer chip."
It can be easily calculated that the human brain is equivalent to hundreds of billions or trillions of chips, and this patient, the number of brain cells damaged is more than 30%, which is equivalent to the computer burning tens of billions of chips.
"Doesn't it say that people's brains are very adaptable," Zhang Heng frowned, "Some people have had half of their brains removed because of epilepsy, and they have survived." ” "Yes, the human brain is very adaptable," Thompson nodded and sighed, "The human brain has 1,000 nerve cells that are dysfunctional every hour, and nearly 9 million nerves are dysfunctional in a year, but even so, the brain can still work normally."
The main reason is that the brain has enough reserve strength, but now his brain is damaged, that is, even the reserve force is damaged. ” Zhang Heng was completely speechless, he thought for a while, "Will there be a way to stimulate the potential of the brain to repair the trauma of the brain and restore the former state?"
"It can't be, not even the T-virus."
Thompson shook his head, "The brain injury is not irreversible, but at least two elements are needed, one is that the injury is controllable, and the other is to be as timely as possible, brain cells will be irreversibly killed by lack of oxygen for 6 minutes, once the damage is too serious, even if the surgical equipment is not able to do what God can't do." ” At this time, an assistant had already practiced shaving off all of Luo Jincheng's hair, and after disinfecting it with alcohol, he covered the surgical cloth, revealing only Luo Jincheng's Tianling cover.
Then he began to carefully draw dotted lines on Luo Jincheng's smooth head, and this operation required opening Luo Jincheng's entire skull to expose all the brains.
"Professor Thompson, the venous access has been established and we are ready."
An assistant reported.
"Okay, let's get ready for a craniotomy."
Thompson nodded and stood up, and at this time, the automated surgical equipment had been set up on top of Luo Jincheng's smooth head, and Thompson walked to the back of the equipment and gave the order to scan the brain.
Suddenly, a large number of robotic arms swung on their own, and those robotic arms actively monitored Luo Jincheng's head, and then saw the dotted line drawn by the assistant, and after a few confirmations, a dark blue laser suddenly poked out from one of the robotic arms, and quickly swiped along the dotted line, and it was completely extinguished in an instant "Snort" The cyan smoke rose into the air, and the operating room was filled with the smell of barbecue, but everyone's faces were as usual, and one of the assistants carefully inserted a tool into the scalp that had been cut by the laser, and gently lifted it up, and suddenly, Luo Jincheng's skull was completely lifted, revealing a pink meningeal layer.
Then, this assistant stepped back, and another assistant quickly stepped forward and stuck a disposable hemostat on the incision of the scalp, although the wounds were all scorched, but there was no guarantee that no blood would flow out of the cranial cavity.
Then, the automated surgical equipment moves again to remove the meningeal layer, and the cerebral cortex is completely exposed to everyone's eyes.
Next, it is to rely on automated surgical equipment, rows of scanning lasers to hit the damaged parts of the brain, and start repairing the damaged parts of the brain, those broken nerve bundles and blood vessels, as well as some blood clots and cysts, these are all to be cleaned up, and even some of the damaged necrotic areas have to be removed.
"Pay attention to the patient's blood pressure, don't blindly trust the surgical equipment, when I was doing the experiment, there was a time when the surgical equipment caused massive bleeding in the subject's body, so even the surgical equipment is also the possibility of error."
"The patient's brain waves are increasing, is the effect of the anesthetic reduced, continue to increase the injection dose, I don't want the patient to wake up during the operation."
Thompson and his assistants began to get busy, this kind of brain repair surgery is basically impossible in reality, even if hundreds of people can't play it, but now with the help of automated surgical instruments, it has made brain repair possible, although the success rate is still not high, but it is always much better than not succeeding at all.
This operation will last dozens of hours in the plan, during which Luo Jincheng's brain will be soaked in brain culture medium liquid, some too complicated places, but also need Thompson to suppress the formation, his role, is to deal with some emergencies that even automated surgical equipment can not handle, as the first scientist to use automated surgical equipment, he has accumulated extremely rich experience t1706231537: