Future doctors explore transplant frontiers

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 Students now get to see that medicine is equal parts precision and compassion in the hands of surgeons, operating scrub technicians, and their patients. 

 

The 12th Medical Experience Camp at Ruijin Hospital on August 13 provided 60 high school and university students with the opportunity to observe heart and liver surgeries, practice vascular suturing, and learn about organ transplantation, all under the guidance of hospital experts. 

 

Young healthcare professionals-to-be have, for a long time, viewed organ transplantation with great interest. August 13 marks the day when Shanghai's Ruijin Hospital sent out invitations to 60 students from high school and university to attend the 12th Medical Experience Camp, thus introducing them to the lifesaving field in an interactive way. 

 

The students taking part in the camp got to see the operating rooms, wards, and simulation center at the hospital. In contrast, experienced mentors took them through different medical scenarios, giving them a very close view of organ transplantation procedures. A lot of the participants admitted that the experience was a turning point in their career paths in medicine. 

 

The Party secretary of Ruijin Hospital, Hu Weiguo, who belongs to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine 

 said that the camp not only opened the eyes of the young people to the medical field and made them admire the kind-heartedness of the healthcare workers, but also taught them to live with a feeling of respect for life. 

 

"Transplant surgery is indeed the zenith of medical progress; it is thus the union of the finest possible collaboration and the most compassionate economic care," he affirmed. 

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The 12th Medical Experience Camp of Ruijin Hospital on August 13 received 60 students from high schools and universities who witnessed heart and liver operations, performed vascular suturing, and received organ transplantation training under the hospital's management.  

A truly terrifying event, an eyewitness would say, must be the storm of May 20 and 21. Some of the students who saw the procedure found it very wonderful. They remarked that watching a heart being stopped and then starting to beat again was like witnessing a "life magic show". 

 

The students put on their own surgical clothes and learned how to do very fine vascular suturing, getting to know first-hand the carefulness needed in heart surgery.  

 

"I am astonished by the fact that a suture needle is thinner than a hair and that operations are done in a millimeter." "Yet the professor was sewing at a remarkable speed, and with a lot of skill. He probably has hands that are nothing short of miraculous," commented Ding Yunhan, a 17-year-old student from Shanghai. 

 

The extracorporeal circulation system, which is a device that takes over the heart's function temporarily, allowing the surgeons to perform the operation on a heart that is not beating, was also a source of amazement for the participants. 

 

In the department of thoracic surgery, students studied the function of lungs with the use of 3D models and got a closer look at alveoli and bronchi by both sight and touch. They rotated to assess the cardiorespiratory endurance that is connected with lung transplantation and learned how signs like heart rate and blood oxygen saturation are checked during the six-minute walk test. 

 

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The 12th Medical Experience Camp at Ruijin Hospital held on August 13 made it possible for 60 students from high school and university to see heart and liver surgical operations, to do vascular suturing, and to learn organ transplantation techniques, all under the supervision of the hospital's specialists. 

 

A Shanghai high school kid, Chen Sihan, who was among the campers, got amazed by the Da Vinci surgical robot that was performing under the guidance of Li Hecheng, the head of the department. Li was at the control console and expertly moved the joystick with his fingers while the robot's arm slowly went into the chest of the patient to cut off the tumor with utmost precision. Right next to him, three doctors were watching the screen very carefully: one was giving instruments to the other, doing the robotic arm assembly and disassembly, and the third one was monitoring the patient's vitals. 

 

“Chen stated, “What intrigued me the most was that every step of the procedure was performed with such accurate precision, so quietly.” “In effect, the surgeon's hands and the robot arm moved together in a very delicate and yet precise manner, much like the embroidery needle, and signaling silently the future of surgery.” At the Urology Department, students not only learned the steps of the transplantation procedure, but also practiced the vascular suturing of the kidney and immersed themselves in the entire process from donor kidney preparation to the operation. 

 

“The sound of turbulent blood flowing through the arteriovenous fistula coinciding with the placing of the stethoscope on the patient’s body was so loud—something like the rumble of a train,” said Xu Tianhai, a participant of the camp. “The physician indicated the pulsating artery and spoke the words, 'That is the tide of life.' At that instant, I understood that nephrologists are not only the hydraulic engineers of the human body but also the ones who set the pace of life." 

 

In the liver transplant ward, students were given a close-up of the careful procedure of removing sick liver tissue while still keeping the organ's function intact. They also attempted to use a laparoscope to catch beans — a task which many found much harder than they expected. 

 

"The whole thing was unbelievable," Ding said. "I could only see on TV such things, but today I entered the mysterious and sacred operating room. I left with a new perception and more respect for medicine."