The Hospital carried out an open heart surgery yestery and the Doctors are proud of it and thet tweeet the procedure on their twitter handle. In the tweet, the Doctors says...
-The surgeons are prepping and drapping the patient in preparation for surgery
-The surgeon is performing a Median Sternotomy - opening the chest of the patient.
-The patient is about to go on bypass - The bypass machine is a temporary replacement of the heart - before the heart is stopped.
-The bypass machine creates a new route for blood to circulate, so that the heart can be stopped.
-The surgeons have connected the tubes successfully and the patient is now on bypass.
-The surgeons are trying to put a purse string around the RSPV (Right Superior Pulmonary Vein)
-And now a cannula has been inserted into the RSPV. This is to completely drain the heart of blood.
-The heart has been stopped and the bypass machine is continuing its functions.The corrective procedure is still being carried out on the heart and everything is going fine.
-The heart has been started again successfully and being tested to work just fine.
-The patient has been taken off the bypass machine and the heart takes over. The patient is being closed up.
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