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World's First Awake Cardiac Bypass & Valve Surgery

submitted by mauz15

1 decade 5 years 6 months ago

The first coronary bypass surgery along with an aortic valve replacement without using general anaesthesia or ventilator support while the patient was on a heart lung machine.The technique of high thoracic epidural analgesia is a highly precision based methodology which involves injection of micro doses of local anaesthetic in the epidural space around the spinal cord which anaesthetises only the chest region while the rest of the system is fully awake.

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When I saw this, I mentioned to a friend, who's father is an Anesthesiologist, that his dad might be unemployed soon.

He then asked me who I thought administered the neck-to-groin anesthetic...

I won't mess with doctors again, promise

Moving this video to mauz15's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter mauz15.

AeroMechanical says...

I wouldn't want to be in the position of having to stick a needle into someone's spinal cord for all of the rice in China.

My parents are anesthesiologists though, and apparently it isn't that big a deal. You do it by feel. One crunch and you're in the subarachnoid space (or whatever), two and you're in the epidural space.

Very interesting video. I always like these surgery videos, but it kind of takes the magic out of it. When it comes down to it, they're just cutting and sewing and chopping and scraping and shoving. Knee replacements are the worst. Then they're doing a good deal of hammering too.

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