Ms. Tajima in surgery

Ms. Tajima, a gentle and lovable mature lady, is simply a joy to have as a patient, being able to help such a woman get back into a pain free life with her family is just the kind of mission that fulfills you as a health care worker and warms your heart.

Especially the OB & Gyn department is filled with doctors and nurses who go to work every day in hope of helping a fellow lady life her best life.

Therefore our main gynecological surgeon, Dr. Yukihara was very happy about the chance to finally so something for her patient after much uncertainty and consideration time. While Ms. Tajima had been living with every present and steadily worsening symptoms caused by her once very useful uterus, the thought of removing it made her sick with worry and fear. As she finally agreed to go into the surgeon's care,

Dr. Yukihara was committed to make it the right decision for her. Attempting the more complex and difficult laparoscopic approach to her hysterectomy to reduce the surgery's impact on the housewife and mother's life as much as possible.

For this, the mother of one would of course first be deeply sedated and positioned in an accessible way for the doctor and the rest of the team to do their work. Speaking of assistants, the surgical intern Akari was given the amazing opportunity to work directly with Dr. Yukihara on this, at least for her, extremely interesting case patient and learn first hand from the gynecologist's top notch laparoscopy skills.

Luckily and thanks to technology as well as the anesthesiologist's work, the poor Ms. Tajima can be left completely unaware and oblivious to the many things needing to be done on her in order to improve her health. Like the intubation of her trachea for the mechanical ventilation to take over her lungs, or the catheter inserted into her urethra to drain her bladder of urine throughout the long procedure and monitor her fluid levels, the bloating of her belly with inert gas giving her a look of being on the delivery table, the placement of multiple ports for insertion of surgical tools and spreading her worn vagina to it's limits to eventually extract the cut up lobs of flesh remaining of her womb. Once awake following a successful procedure, all this patient will have to look at are the few tiny cuts on her belly, drastically eazing stress on her fragile body and reducing recovery time.

All while that is taking place, Ms. Tajima's vital sign are carefully monitored. ECG electrodes pick up the electric activity from her slightly weak heart beating away inside her chest, a cuff around her upper arm squeezes down on her blood vessels to provide updates on the pressure inside them, all while a light shines through her finger tip to see how much oxygen is in fact inside Ms. Tajima's blood at that time.

During the operation even mucus is suctioned from the sleeping woman through a port next to her breathing tube.

If you were to remove the strips of tape holding her eyes securely and pacefully shut, you could see the wide and unresponsive eyes filled with the orange ot brownish cream inserted shortly aftter anesthesia. She will no longer be able to notice it after having woken up from the anesthesia. The paste having disolved by that time.

While frightening to the patient, the effort both technical and human behind each and every surgical procedure is immense and yet it's always worth it!

Worth it for every bit a patient can get better.

"Almost every day a fellow woman entrusts her womanhood to me, that's all the praise I need in life."

- Dr. Fumino Yukihara

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