SHANGHAI: Patient No.1 is a thin man with a scabby face and bouncy knees. His head, shaved for surgery, is wrapped in a clean, white cloth.
Years of drug use cost him his wife, money and self-respect, before landing him in this Shanghai hospital, facing the surgeon who will soon drill two holes in his skull and feed electrodes deep into his brain.
The surgery involves implanting a device that acts as a kind of pacemaker for the brain, electrically stimulating targeted areas. Now, the experimental surgery Patient No.1 is about to undergo is coming to America. In February, the US Food and Drug Administration greenlighted a clinical trial in West Virginia of DBS for opioid addicts.
At 4pm, Yan went under general anesthesia for a second surgery to implant a battery pack in his chest to power the electrodes in his skull. The next day, he sat across from Dr Li, who used a tablet computer to remotely adjust the machine thrumming inside Yan’s head.
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