By Li Bo

ecently, while Lu Junjie, a surgeon of the 20th Chinese Medical Team to Guyana, was performing an operation, the lights in the operating room suddenly went out, and the medical equipment stopped working. The operating room was shrouded in darkness.

The hospital had a power outage. It is a problem that surgeons least want to encounter during surgery. There was no lighting, the surgical area became blurry and unclear; without the electrosurgical unit, cutting and hemostasis became difficult. The more important matter was that the mechanical ventilator could not work, and the patient’s life was in grave danger.

Facing the unexpected situation, Lu Junjie calmed down quickly. He made an emergency response plan immediately. Firstly, do everything possible to maintain the patient’s vital signs. Secondly, the operation was already halfway done and could not be stopped halfway. It was necessary to complete the operation as quickly as possible without good lighting conditions.

In the darkness, the anesthetists, nurses and local doctors acted quickly. They turned on the phone lights, which provided weak lighting for the surgery. Although there was not enough lighting, everyone was doing their best to contribute to the race against time.

With the help of everyone, Lu Junjie maintained the patient’s breathing using a simple ventilator, and completed the operation in the shortest time, with superb skills and strong determination. After the operation was completed, the patient woke up successfully and the vital signs were stable.