Chapter 838 Interventional Therapy

The next day Xu Wei took his father to the hospital for a detailed examination. Guo Xiang took a good look at the checklists and nodded, "It should be possible to do interventional treatment."

"That's great!" Xu Wei was overjoyed, he didn't think it could really be done.

"Then get ready for interventional treatment," Guo Xiang said.

I asked Dr. Xing Ming to come over. Although he can't, he is still a cardiothoracic surgeon after all. He can assist and learn by the way. Maybe he can do treatment alone in the future.

Xu Wei also applied to enter the operating room to watch, he was very curious.

When everything is ready, it is still necessary to strictly abide by the disinfection work like ordinary surgery.

Father Xu was lying on the operating bed, and Guo Xiang asked the anesthesiologist to give local anesthesia.

Interventional treatment only requires local anesthesia instead of general anesthesia, which reduces the risk of general anesthesia for the elderly.

In front of him is an X-ray machine, with a monitoring screen on the side. From the screen, you can see how the catheter enters the blood vessels of the human body.

A small incision of a few millimeters is made in the femoral artery of the leg, and a catheter is passed through the incision.

Those who see it for the first time may be shocked. It turns out that things can be stuffed into blood vessels? Doesn't that hurt?

The catheter is a bit like a wire and looks a little scary.

From the screen, you can see that the catheter is slowly walking into the blood vessel and slowly towards the heart.

Guo Xiang is staring at the screen while feeding the catheter in her hand. In fact, she has a fluoroscopy and can see the inside of the body directly, but she is currently undergoing treatment, so she naturally has to follow the regular method, but sometimes she will look inside by herself. After all, it is more intuitive to look directly.

When the catheter reaches the coronary artery of the heart, an inspection has been done before to know which is the narrowed artery, and a contrast agent is injected into the blood vessel. Under the X-ray machine, all aspects of the blood flow can be seen, and the specific location can be known.

When the catheter reached the target, Guo Xiang moved his hand, and saw a thinner thread-like thing appearing in the catheter, going into the blood vessel, and then she pressed something, and the thread actually opened like an umbrella.

It turned out that it was not a wire, but a very thin stent, but it was bundled at the beginning. When it was opened, the narrowed blood vessel was propped up, and it was obvious that the blood flow increased.

In fact, interventional therapy has been used in many ways in the future.

Such as liver cancer, such as uterine fibroids, such as thrombosis.

As in the case of thrombus, the device in the catheter is different. It will stretch out a line and open it like a forceps to crush the thrombus, and then a suction tube will stick out on the side to suck the crushed thrombus away, so that the blood vessels can be broken. Blockages are cleared.

It's hard to compare that there are so many things in a tube that is only a few millimeters long, so microscopic and imaging equipment is needed, otherwise, there is no way to see it or do it by hand.

The stent in the coronary artery is held up, and the thin wire inside is retracted. Then Guo Xiang slowly pulled out the catheter and made another one.

A total of two brackets were placed this time.

Guo Xiang breathed a sigh of relief when he was done. In fact, he hadn't done it for a long time, and luckily his hand was not rusty.

After the incision is done, the incision is only a small wound, which is not like heart surgery, which requires opening the chest, so most people can't stand it.

Both Xing Ming and Xu Wei looked at Guo Xiang with admiration. Dean Guo really didn't brag, she really knew how to do it.

They all sweated for her.

Although it looked simple, they all knew that it was not easy, such a thin tube, such a long catheter, had to be inserted into the blood vessels of the heart, and the heart was still beating.

"It can be sent to the ward." Guo Xiang breathed a sigh of relief, "you have to stay in bed for 24 hours and can't move, this vascular sheath has to be kept for six to 12 hours, don't pull it out casually, after 12 hours it will be pulled out, and then you need to press the bandage. Twenty-four hours, the sandbag was pressurized to stop the bleeding, and the leg couldn't move..."

Because it is the femoral artery, if you do not pressurize to stop the bleeding, it is likely that the blood will not stop flowing out, and the consequences will be very serious.

Then Guo Xiang talked about some postoperative matters, such as adding 1,000 to 1500 liters of rehydration fluid, because the contrast agent was added to the blood, only rehydration can speed up the metabolism.

There are anticoagulation to stop bleeding, pay attention to light diet and so on.

"Then when can I get up and play?" Xu Wei asked.

"You can move from 24 hours to 48 hours after the operation, but it's best to just stay in bed and walk slowly when you fully recover. You will need to be hospitalized for at least half a month." Guo Xiang said.

"Then I have to ask for leave." Father Xu said.

Because of the local anesthesia, he was awake.

"Ask your mother to help you. You will definitely be able to ask for leave after surgery, and the unit will not be so unreasonable. Besides, you are about to retire, and they will not deliberately make it difficult for you." Xu Wei said, "Now your health is It's important, you don't have to worry about the rest."

Father Xu nodded, I really didn't expect that the disease that had been suffering for so long would be cured like this?

"But in the future, you should pay attention to rest, don't do heavy physical work, eat a light diet, less oil and less salt, and live a regular life. People who do stents have about a 1% chance of developing blood clots in the future, and they need to take aspirin. Years, to prevent..." Guo Xiang said.

"Yes, I will pay attention to all of these." Xu Wei nodded, just let the family pay more attention to the postoperative matters, it all depends on himself.

Mother Xu was already anxiously waiting outside the operating room, for fear that something might happen.

It is very strange when I see my wife come out and still awake. Is it in such a good state?

"The treatment was very successful, don't worry, Mom, I will tell you about the future," Xu Wei said.

Mother Xu was overjoyed, "Thank you, thank Dean Guo!" Now they know that Dean Guo is really capable.

"You're welcome." Guo Xiang smiled.

Back in the ward, Father Xu was also very emotional. This hospital is really good. He has been cured for so long, and the conditions of this ward are really good, like a hotel.

Because there are few patients now, even if he lives in a two-person room, he is alone, like a private room.

Everywhere is clean and tidy, the attitude of the nurses is very good, and it can't compare with the public.

It's just that there are too few patients now.

He was a little worried for Guo Xiang.

"Dad, do you know now that I didn't lie to you?" Xu Wei said.

"It's good here, but can you really be reused here? I don't see many patients." Father Xu said.

"Dad, that's because there are still many people who don't know about this hospital, and there are many people who know it but don't believe it's good like you, so we're just going to publicize and advertise, and there will be more people cured in the future, come here. There will definitely be more patients, and I'm not afraid that they won't develop..." Xu Wei said.

"Yeah, I see that the doctors and nurses here are so good, and the patients will feel better when they come to see a doctor. It's not like that public hospital, which seems to owe them eight hundred yuan..." Xu mother also said.

"It's not cheap to treat this disease today, right?" Father Xu asked.

"It's about a few thousand dollars." Xu Wei said, "The equipment is imported, and the stents are all imported, and there are medicines, and they have to stay in the hospital for so long..."

"Well, aren't we taking a big advantage?" Father Xu felt a little embarrassed, a few thousand, not dozens or hundreds of dollars.

"President Guo can run such a large hospital with such a small amount of money, so we have to cooperate with her to publicize it, let more people know about this treatment method, and also benefit more people!" Xu Wei said.