Ask the Heart TV series 38 episodes.
Zhou Xiaofeng is an associate chief physician of the Department of Cardiology at Dongli Hospital. He is introverted and has a strict self-discipline in his work life, and is the key training target of the department head Bai He and the hospital leadership, and is the backbone of the Department of Cardiology. He becomes a partner in the coronary team with the blunt and impulsive cardiothoracic surgeon Lin Yi, who has different medical philosophies and strong disagreements.
Lin Yi, also a recent recruit, had previously focused only on performing surgeries at the Western Hospital and lacked communication and collaboration with his colleagues. His immediate leader and teacher, Noah Cao, thought this was not conducive to his growth, and recommended that he work at the Eastern Hospital's newly established cardiac center.
Zhou Xiaofeng's younger sister, Fang Xiaoran, enrolls at Dongli Hospital to become a cardiac intensive care unit doctor in order to pursue her own aspirations and to ease her brother's relationship with her mother. In the process of treating patients and saving lives, the three of them go from not understanding and confronting each other to appreciating and supporting each other, and become very good working partners.
"Ask the Heart" Behind the Scenes
1, Scriptwriting
Screenwriter Zhou Yifei said that in the early stages of creation, he visited more than 10 tertiary hospitals, exchanged in-depth with nearly 50 first-line cardiologists, added more than 130 medical doctors and nurses, and invited a number of medical consultants to follow the entire process of creating the film, from the outline to the script, and from case to line. The movie was written by a number of medical consultants who followed the entire process of creation, from the outline to the script, from the selection of cases to the deliberation of each line, all striving for excellence.
2. The filming process
In November 2022, the drama was finalized.
Before the shooting of the episode began, the lead actors entered a number of tertiary hospitals in advance for more than a month of internships and observation, following the doctors to sit in on clinics and treatments, learning how to communicate with patients, and accumulating experience. The creative team not only built 8,000 square meters of hospital sets of different generations, but also created a series of new hospitals, including a new one for the first time, a new one for the second time, and a new one for the third time.
The heart center and ICU studio covers an area of 3,000 square meters, purchased and rented more than 200 sets of professional medical equipment, such as ventilators, anesthesia machines, ECMO, CRRT, etc. During the filming process, every surgical scene, every professional action is also guided by the side of the senior doctors of tertiary hospitals, and the filming in the real tertiary hospitals in the operating room lasted for 25 days, with a total of 491T of footage. The film was shot in the operating room of a real tertiary hospital for 25 days, with a total of 491T of footage.