Only this kind of hands‑on, doer‑type answer from a medical student can make the seniors feel the looming threat of the younger generation surging up behind them. Sometimes, being surpassed by juniors is just a matter of a few years.
Doctor Cheng Yuchen's expression was serious as he asked her, "Have you ever done Closed Thoracic Drainage?"
Closed Thoracic Drainage is a grade‑II operation, a minor surgery that a regular resident physician can perform. It's not exactly difficult, but it's not exactly simple either. In clinical practice, there are usually two ways to do this procedure.
One method is quite traditional: you inject local anesthetic, use a scalpel to cut through the skin and muscle between the ribs. Then, using a curved clamp, you bluntly dissect a tract into the pleural cavity, insert the chest tube, and finally suture it in place for fixation.
