Chapter 421 - Call your CEO Husband

"The patient will be withdrawn from the ventilator in 30 minutes!" One of the nurses said after making a call to the ICU. After the patient is withdrawn from the life support, they will wait for another 5 minutes to make sure that the heart does not beat again and more or less another 5 minutes travel time from ICU which is on the 2nd floor of the same building to the Department of Surgery.

"Okay, we still have 40 minutes. Where are the surgeons Nurse J?" Dr. Aaron asked.

"They are on their way. But they are lacking with one transplant surgeon. Dr. Ramones is out of town." J said. The CLP Group of Hospital has its own Transplant Team. The transplant team consists of transplant surgeons that were highly skilled in their different areas that perform transplant surgery and care of the donor and the recipient. They had special training to perform transplant surgery.

"Damn!" Dr. Aaron seemed disturbed for a moment before he thought of a solution. "Call your CEO husband. I am sure he will drop whatever he is doing if you tell him to join the transplant team for now."

J cocked her head and raised a brow.

"Don't give me that look. Your husband subspecialized in transplant surgery and we need him now." Dr. Aaron said in a matter of fact tone.

"Oh…Okay."

After one hour, the patient is now on the operating table. He was surrounded by four surgeons and five nurses plus some standby nurses waiting to deliver the organs to other hospitals. Dr. Aaron Choi is now performing a preparatory maneuver that would take about 10 to 15 minutes.

He made an incision from between the collarbone of the patient down to his pubic area. With Head Nurse Jing as his assisting Nurse, Dr. Aaron Choi made a couple of incisions, ligations, and isolation of the gallbladder, liver, esophagus, diaphragm and some of the major veins.

Once Dr. Aaron is done, he turned to Dr. Gonzales. "Dr. Gonzales, you may now proceed." This time Dr. Gonzales is not being assisted with Nurse J since Dr. Jacob Parker is also among them. He knows that Dr. Jacob Parker also preferred to have only Nurse J to assist him. He wouldn't dare snatch away his wife from him.

Therefore, he is being assisted by Nurse Maggie. When Jacob suggested a program that trains OR Nurses to specialize in different fields. Nurse Maggie is the one chosen by Dr. Gonzales to be trained as his assisting nurse.

"Okay." Dr. Gonzales replied. As soon as she heard this, Nurse Maggie passed a curved Kelly forceps to Dr. Gonzales. Dr. Gonzales used it to stop the circulation of blood before he started the cold infusion through the patient's major vein and artery.

During the cold infusion, J and Jacob watched the patient's liver. "It is starting to blanched," J said without looking at Jacob.

Jacob reached to touched the liver with his gloved hands. "It is getting cold."

J nodded her head. "Should we start?"

"Not yet," Jacob replied. J hasn't assisted in a liver transplant before thou she knows that the liver should be palpably cold and free of blood before it should be dissected. She raised her head to look at Jacob questionably.

Jacob noticed the questioning look in J's eyes behind that goggles. "Let's make sure it is free of blood. We haven't infused enough solution after all." Then he winked at her. J finally understands. She looked at the drip near Dr. Gonzales.

During this time, Dr. Gonzales and Nurse Maggie have started with the dissection of the heart and lungs.

After the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys are removed it was placed in an icy container to be transported to other hospitals where patients are waiting for an organ transplant.

They left for another group to remove the patient's cornea.

After the surgery, J felt exhausted not because of the duration of the surgery but because of its urgency.