A Hospital in Another World? Chapter 1094: Elder, Can You Really Teach the Ancient Tree to Perform Dialysis?

Using an ancient tree as a biological dialysis machine...

This was something Garrett had never imagined. The medical devices Garrett had seen before were all made of metal, glass, silicone, rubber... In short, they had smooth surfaces, were heat-resistant, and could be sterilized...

Even disposable medical devices had to be sterilized first.

But now, an ancient tree had lowered its branches, inserting them directly into the patient's body through the incision Garrett had made in the abdomen.

Garrett stood there, looking up at the tree that required dozens of people to fully embrace its trunk, its canopy covering several hundred square meters. It felt a bit...

Absurd to treat it as a medical device.

Even though the tender branch had just grown, similar to the vines Garrett had cultivated, and was designed to prevent infection to the greatest extent possible. But still...

But this was a tree!

A tree rooted in the ground, sprouting leaves in spring, blossoming in summer, bearing fruit in autumn, and shedding leaves in winter!

Elder, how did you manage to make the tree act as a dialysis machine? I asked for your advice thinking you might persuade some plant to grow a tube or membrane, not to have the ancient tree itself participate!

"Wait, wait," Garrett finally reacted, raising his hand to stop them:

"Anticoagulation! Control the flow rate! Monitor the arterial and venous pressure difference! — I haven't even prepared the dialysis solution!"

"Why prepare dialysis solution?" The elder turned to him, his expression calm:

"Didn't you say you wanted to extract the harmful substances? I've already told the ancient tree to absorb these things. Isn't that enough?"

"Right!"

Cirilla also leaned over, looking up, then down, tugging at Garrett:

"I've been wondering, why not just extend a vine inside, wrap around the tumor, and simply suck it out? If the harmful substances can be removed, then they won't poison the person, right?"

"That's also a method..."

In fact, this was one of Garrett's backup plans. If treating a single tumor, like an isolated liver cancer tumor, using vines would indeed be much more convenient:

A vine could extend inside and clean up the disintegrated cancer cells, making it a cost-effective solution, much easier than setting up dialysis.

What?

Can't clean it up completely?

If it can't be cleaned up completely, the vine's head could open up, envelop the tumor, and slowly draw it out with a vacuum extractor... Ah...

Before Garrett could finish his thought, the rabbit in front of him suddenly twitched. Elder Fahim quickly cast seven or eight healing spells, barely bringing the rabbit's vital signs back. He let out a sigh of relief, touched the branch in front of him, and frowned:

"This method won't work. It just pierced right through!"

"Punctured?"

Garrett turned his head. His method was feasible; if it punctured, it must have been the ancient tree being too rough—no, the branches and leaves being too rough. He grabbed another rabbit, performed an ultrasound, then a CT scan, and held a seed between his fingers, urging it to grow into a vine:

"You need to wrap around the tumor, not recklessly plunge into the abdominal cavity... Do it slowly, approach bit by bit... Look..."

With the Arcane Eye wrapped in the vine, Garrett carefully guided it through the abdominal cavity incision. The vine spread out in countless fine threads, creating a small space within the rabbit's abdominal cavity.

In the observation of the Arcane Eye's light screen, the tip of the vine separated into what looked like countless delicate fingers, slowly parting the peritoneum, the omentum that held the intestines, the ligaments, and the membrane covering the liver.

Then, it gently and slowly separated the blood vessels and bile ducts on the liver's surface, cutting them off one by one with the guidance of the Arcane Eye, casting healing spells as needed. The membrane surrounding the tumor was carefully separated from the surrounding healthy tissue, and the vine wrapped around it...

"So slow..."

Elder Fahim let out a long sigh. Behind him, Linga was holding a notebook, writing and sketching nonstop:

"So many things to do... For such a small tumor, it took..."

She glanced out the window:

"Half an hour?"

Sister, half an hour is already quite fast, okay? Garrett concentrated fully, controlling the vine's movements with the utmost precision, sweat beading on his forehead:

Find a surgeon, the best, most skilled surgeon in a top-tier hospital, and ask them to remove a tumor laparoscopically in half an hour?

In half an hour, they might just reach the liver!

This is only because the vine is softer than a laparoscope and much easier to control. That's why he could isolate the tumor in half an hour!

Garrett didn't argue. He knew firsthand how fast it could be done. He controlled the thickest vine, opening its tip to "swallow" the tumor, then cast a spell:

He locked onto the tumor with his mental energy and activated the Targeted Cancer Cell Annihilation Spell, exerting maximum force!

Go!

The feedback from the vine reached his fingertips. After "swallowing" the tumor, the vine was initially solid, bearing the tumor's weight. But soon, it softened and collapsed, the softened mass flowing through the hollow vine and out.

"It's done."

Garrett withdrew the vine, allowing the liquid inside to flow into a test tube. He finally relaxed, sitting down beside him. He rubbed his forehead and leaned back with a sigh:

"Finally finished..."

Although he was now an 11th-level mage, manipulating the vine for half an hour wasn't too taxing on his mental energy. However, maintaining such intense focus, without a single mistake, was still nerve-wracking and required some relaxation:

"And this was just one tumor. If it were multiple tumors or something like lymphoma spread throughout the body, using vines to extract them one by one would be exhausting..."

The important thing is, dialysis has a broad range of applications! Not just tumor treatment—other conditions, like kidney failure, liver failure, poisoning, all can benefit from it!

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Taking advantage of Elder Fahim's presence, Garrett knew he had to find a way to master this technique!

Elder Fahim's expression was serious. The difference between Garrett's delicate operation and the ancient tree's rough poke was clear. Teaching the elder the anatomy of the human body, and then teaching the ancient tree—or controlling the ancient tree...

It didn't seem like something that could be learned in just a day or two. By comparison, the "dialysis" that Garrett mentioned seemed more convenient?

"By the way, how do you prepare the dialysis solution?" Fahim asked.

Garrett gave him a desperate look. Dialysis solution, dialysis solution—how could he possibly prepare that?

Today's dialysis solutions are pre-made, supplied regularly by specialized suppliers. When needed, you just take it and add it to the dialysis machine, and it runs itself. How could he know how to prepare it?

He's not a nephrologist, nor is he from the dialysis unit, or even internal medicine... Asking him how to prepare it would require recalling the normal ion concentrations in the blood and slowly calculating them!

"...Forget it, I'll figure it out." Elder Fahim remained silent for a moment before turning to call his disciple:

"Anari, go catch two normal rabbits!"

"Got it!"

Linga sprinted out.

While she was busy catching rabbits, Garrett was busy making records and writing a paper. In the meantime, he also needed to analyze the extracted tumor cell liquid using the "Bloodline Identification·Modified" spell.

Hmm, regarding the treatment of cancer cells using vines, he could already write a separate paper on it. The only question was where to publish it now...

Does Elder Fahim have a way to send the paper to Nevis? Or perhaps, send a bird directly to the Eagle God's Kingdom? That's the nearest route...

As he wrote, he glanced at Elder Fahim. Speaking of which, if even he couldn't figure out how to prepare dialysis solution, what solution could the elder possibly have?

Anari Linga, a 16th-level Nature Walker, caught the rabbits quickly. The speed was only dependent on how close the rabbits were, with no chance of failure. By the time Garrett had finished the abstract and outline, she had already brought two rabbits back, pushing the door open:

"Teacher! I caught them!"

"Good! Take some blood from them!" The elder handed over two test tubes. Anari Linga waved her hand, and rabbit blood immediately began to flow into the test tubes.

The elder took the test tubes and, under Garrett's astonished gaze, held them up to the ancient tree's tender branch:

"Here, taste this, remember the flavor, and memorize the proportions of various components in the blood. Absorb any excess substances."

Garrett: "..."

What?

Let the ancient tree taste rabbit blood?

Let the ancient tree memorize the components?

Elder, you're amazing!

The tender green branch dipped into the test tube. The towering ancient tree worked more efficiently in this regard than even the Blood-Sucking Vine. As the fluid gurgled, one test tube was drained, then another...

"Garrett, about that... tumor cell liquid? Let them taste it too?" Fahim asked.

Garrett silently handed over the test tube, muttering to himself:

Can the ancient tree really taste it?

Can it really?

—Wait, even if it can't, I can teach it!

He quickly cut open a rabbit's abdominal cavity. Taking half a test tube of blood from the renal artery and half a test tube from the renal vein, he handed them to the elder:

"Elder, have the ancient tree taste these

. — This is the blood before it enters the kidneys, and this is the blood after the kidneys filter it. Have the ancient tree remember the components that disappear after filtration; those are what need to be filtered!"

Elder Fahim glanced at Garrett, took the test tubes, and placed one hand on the ancient tree's branch. Closing his eyes, the branch quivered, as if a person and a tree were having a quiet conversation.

Soon, the ancient tree's green branches took turns dipping into the two test tubes, draining the blood within.

"It says it remembers," Elder Fahim said softly. "What else?"

"And... the concentration of various ions... Elder, wait for me to prepare the solution!" Garrett quickly rushed to the lab bench, and soon returned with a bunch of test tubes:

"...This is a potassium chloride solution, this is a sodium chloride solution, this is a calcium chloride solution... Have it remember the flavors of these ions. Please ensure it absorbs any ions beyond this concentration to adjust to normal levels!"

"...It says it remembers and can do it. So, shall we try again?"

The Nth rabbit became the sacrifice. This time, under Garrett's astonished gaze...

Dialysis actually succeeded!

"Elder, you actually taught the ancient tree to perform dialysis! — Can you teach my oak staff too?!"