Chapter 780

In medicine, neurology has always been a more difficult field, especially involving the spinal nerve, which will become more complex.

The end of the spinal nerve is damaged and the whole lower body is paralyzed. If this happens, the general doctor will tell the patient that it is impossible to stand up again.

Li Gaoliang's situation is the same. Once the central nerve cells are damaged, they will not regenerate. No matter how powerful the doctors are, they can't say that they can connect the broken vertebrae and make the paralyzed people stand up again.

However, what Lu Zhou intends to adopt is not the conventional treatment.

A nerve signal modem was implanted at both ends of the injured spinal nerve, and the injured nerve was covered by a molybdenum / titanium alloy imitated nerve sensor.

It is equivalent to building a bridge on the damaged spinal nerve, replacing the complex signal transmission between neurons with electrical signals, and using the "translator" at both ends to translate the electrical signals and neural signals, controlling the titanium alloy skeleton with electric drive device, so as to achieve the effect of restoring the movement function of the legs of patients.

At the same time, in order to maximize the recovery of the movement ability of the subject, and also to extend the shelf life of the nerve access prosthesis, the titanium alloy skeleton used in the legs is jointly designed by the Institute of computational materials and the Institute of mechanical engineering of Jinling Institute of higher research.

If the cost can be calculated, the average unit price per gram is more than $2000, and a kilogram is at least $2 million.

Considering the value of the neural access equipment itself, the cost of the whole set of equipment will almost catch up with that of a main battle tank

However, there is no problem with this analogy. After this transformation, almost half of the parts of his whole lower body have been replaced by machinery. Although it is certainly not as exaggerated as the terminator in the movie, after he can fully adapt to this transformation, there is no problem for ordinary people to have their sports ability and reaction ability exploded.

In the operating room.

The anesthesiologist is ready for anesthesia and can start to apply the medicine at any time.

The surgeon, who had put on gloves, took out the tools for the operation. Before the operation, he took a look at Li Gaoliang and asked him carefully.

"Are you ready?"

Li Gaoliang, lying on the operating table, calmly lowered his chin.

"Ready, let's get started."

All the preparations are in place and the operation will begin soon.

Standing outside the door of the operating room, Wang Peng felt for a cigarette in his pocket, but soon put it out and threw it into the garbage can.

After pacing back and forth for two steps, he couldn't help looking at the boat sitting on the bench.

"Do you think the operation will succeed?"

Shaking his head, Lu Zhou said simply, "there is no 100% assurance. I can only say that I have tried my best to minimize the risk."

In order to ensure that the operation is foolproof, star technology specially invited the most experienced surgeon from Shangjing, and used the 1:1 model for countless exercises before the operation.

But even so, there is no guarantee that there will be no accident during the operation.

Wang Peng nodded, didn't say anything, just stared at the door of the operating room in silence, clenched his fist, and prayed for his old comrade in arms in his heart.

It's a long operation.

The original plan was to end at 6:00 p.m., but it was delayed until 3:00 a.m.

Sitting on the bench at the door of the operating room, I dozed off. Suddenly, I woke up with the sound of the door of the operating room pushing open. Looking at the chief surgeon coming out of the operating room, Lu Zhou said nothing and stood up to ask.

"How are things? Is the operation going well? "

Taking off the mask on his face, the doctor looked at the boat wearily and nodded his head.

"The operation was basically a success As for whether it will work, we have to wait until the patient wakes up. "

Hearing the words of the doctor in charge of the knife, Lu Zhou finally breathed a sigh of relief and put down a suspended heart.

Wang Peng, standing beside him, finally loosened his clenched fist and looked at the doctor gratefully.

"Thank you!"

"Don't thank me. It's mainly the patient's own physical quality. To be honest, I'm the first time to do such a messy operation I've never heard of bridging spinal cord before. "

When he said this, the doctor's face was full of emotion.

Although for the person outside the operating room, the result of the operation is only a simple success or failure, for him as the surgeon in charge, the ten hours of time, every minute is extremely breathtaking.

After a pause, the doctor said.

"Generally speaking, if the spinal cord injury causes its nerve fibers to be cut off, it cannot regenerate. Therefore, the paralysis caused by the injury to this part is basically permanent If he can really stand up again, it may be a miracle in the history of medicine. ""I hope we can do miracles," Lu Zhou nodded to the doctor in charge of the knife. "Go to have a rest, too."

The surgeon managed to smile.

"If you don't tell me, I can't stand it."

He has been focused on the operating table for ten hours in a row, and his spirit has already been on the edge.

……

After the operation.

Until the next morning, Li Gaoliang, who was lying in the hospital bed, finally woke up from his lethargy.

Although the anesthesiologist in charge of anesthesia has rich experience and perfect dose control, it will take a lot of time to eliminate the anesthetic after the operation, so that he can only open his eyes now, let alone cannot speak. The whole person is like a wooden man.

After learning the news that he woke up, he was in a boat at Jinling Institute of higher learning, and immediately came by car.

When he arrived at the ward, Li Gaoliang was lying on the bed staring at the ceiling.

Now he only has eyes and some muscles on his face to move. After hearing the movement at the door of the ward, his eyes moved slightly and looked towards the direction of the boat.

"How do you feel?"

Li's face muscles twitched, but his mouth still failed to open.

“…… Sorry, I forgot you can't talk now. " Lu Zhou smiled and shook his head, paused for a moment and continued, "the operation is very successful. According to the doctor, you can get out of bed in a week without accident. As for whether you can adapt to your new body or not, it depends on your rehabilitation after surgery. But I believe that you have survived the operation itself. This small problem should not be a big deal. "

The black pupil slightly shook, Li Gao Liang didn't speak, just looked at the boat.

Reading out the grateful color from that sight, Lu Zhou smiled carelessly and continued.

"Anyway, it's great that you're safe."

"Take a good rest these days. I won't disturb your recovery. When you get out of bed, I'll come to see you again."

"I......"

The muscle on the face twitches, Li Gaoliang reluctantly opens his mouth and makes a hard voice from his throat.

“…… Thank you, thank you

"You're welcome."

Lu Zhou nodded to him with a smile.

Then he turned and left.