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The scalpel made a cut through the chest, and they inserted a double-lumen endotracheal tube for independent ventilation of both lungs. In a total pneumonectomy, it was important to be mindful of damaging the phrenic nerve and the glossopharyngeal nerve.
Professor Kang Sung-Guk carefully cut the inferior pulmonary ligament. He felt confused in many ways, even while performing the surgery. Kim Hyun-Taek was not just medically and legally deceased; Kang Sung-Guk also thought of him as deceased. It felt like he was practicing on a cadaver with his students rather than opening up a person to treat them.
‘Can he really be revived?’
Kang Sung-Guk performed a total lung resection while maintaining lung ventilation. He took out the artificial lung that A-GenBio made for transplantation. These lungs, which were being stored in dry ice, were fresh, but not anymore. They had to work fast now that it was out of the styrofoam box.
They positioned the artificial lung in the posterior chest cavity and anastomosed the bronchus using the intussusception method.
Now, it was time to transplant the heart.
The aorta, superior vena cava, and inferior vena cava were cannulated and connected to the cardio-pulmonary bypass. The...
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