Doctor: Picking Up Attributes in the Hospital-Chapter 375 - 340: A Man Needs His Charm

Inside the operating room.

The young man was already lying on his side on the operating table. The injection site for the anesthetic gel was the sacral nerve plexus located at the side of the waist. The injection had to be precise and could not go wrong.

Zhao Heng looked at the all-English manual brought by Gu Jia. This water-based molecular anesthetic gel could last for two weeks. If injected into the wrong site, numbing nerves that shouldn’t be numbed could lead to serious issues.

For instance, if the nerves controlling urination and defecation were mistakenly numbed, the young man would suffer from incontinence for up to two weeks, which would be more horrifying than his current condition.

A slight error could lead to a massive mistake, so every clinical procedure must be performed with great caution.

Zhao Heng opened the silver metal box, and cold air puffed out immediately. This refrigerated metal box itself was high-tech.

Materials intended for space missions can’t just be put into any box at random.

The crucial aspect of this box was its materials. There were no electrical or chemical cooling structures since the more complex the structure in space, the higher the likelihood of errors.

Thus, the materials used in making this box were adaptive cooling materials that could adjust their composition to control the temperature inside the box to a defined level.

To put it simply, only a few places in the world could produce such materials.

"Is this something that can be taken into space?"

Looking at the semi-transparent, somewhat viscous substance in the bio-tube, resembling a slug, Li Yang couldn’t help but express his amazement.

Medical materials that can be taken into space must meet specific requirements. The two fundamental factors are effectiveness and stability.

Effectiveness is a given; medical materials used in space must be significantly effective, showing immediate results. Otherwise, if any situation arises, there simply wouldn’t be time to handle it and provide treatment.

Stability refers to the need for stable physical and chemical properties, not easily reacting with other substances, and not changing properties when temperatures increase or decrease.

Effectiveness is relatively easy to achieve. Many new drugs developed now have excellent emergency effects, but achieving stability is far more challenging.

Therefore, the key aspect of this water-based molecular anesthetic gel is not the anesthetic itself but the water-based molecular gel, which involves manufacturing technology comparable to that of nanomaterials.

The difficulty involved is, naturally, imaginable.

"This anesthetic gel will have wide applications in the future."

Zhao Heng suddenly remarked.

It’s easy to see that, compared to other anesthetic injection methods, the critical factor about this gel is its ability to slowly release the anesthetic, and the gel is biocompatible, naturally metabolized by the body, making it a perfect drug release material.

Simply put, this gel can practically be used anywhere in the body for anesthesia and pain relief.

"It’s just a bit too expensive."

Li Yang said.

This walnut-sized gel costs around one hundred thousand, mainly because it’s already been used on a large scale elsewhere, thus reducing the price.

"Anything with the space label becomes expensive."

Zhao Heng said.

Based on his experience preparing nanomaterials with Professor Li Hongwei, the cost of this anesthetic gel must only be a few thousand dollars.

In modern society, anything that can be industrially manufactured has unimaginably low costs.

Moreover, this gel is chemically synthesized, making it much simpler than preparing nanomaterials.

"I hope we can develop this kind of gel ourselves one day."

Li Yang sighed.

In this field, we have suffered significant losses over the decades.

"Difficult."

Zhao Heng said.

Domestic research and development are really hard to describe.

Otherwise, we wouldn’t have had to rely on importing similar products at several times, or even dozens of times the price, for decades.

Research and development in the country is an arduous and unrewarding task, fortunately, Zhao Heng and Wang Yaoqing’s cooperation in developing software related to medical fields is highly specialized, and ongoing maintenance is required.

Otherwise, any software can be pirated in no time.

While dining with Wang Yaoqing before, Wang mentioned that many software companies now develop software entirely in English and sell it to foreigners.

Not long after, Tian Zhen prepared the other instruments and said to Zhao Heng, "Dr. Zhao, we can start now."

"Alright."

Zhao Heng nodded.

Next, Zhao Heng, wearing surgical rubber gloves, carefully took out the nearly ten-thousand-dollar-worth water-based molecular gel from the silver bio-metal box.

This was a ten-thousand-dollar item. A momentary slip could lead to it falling to the ground.

Not to mention dropping it, even a bit of contamination on the gel would render it unsuitable for injection into the body, let alone near nerves.

Forty minutes.

Zhao Heng and Li Yang completed the procedure together.

"How are you feeling now?" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Zhao Heng asked the young man.

Since an extremely fine minimally invasive needle was used to inject the gel, the young man wasn’t anesthetized, and the effect of the anesthetic gel should be immediately obvious.