This work is absolutely fascinating. Once again I'm finding myself at a loss for words. Everyday is another story. Beautiful, challenging and amazing.
One of the first things I noticed were the hands of the surgeons. There's a tiny heart jumping at say...150 beats a minute, lungs rthymically inflating and deflating. In short the work area is moving a mile a minute, and the hands....rock solid. At one point a perfusionist in the OR hit something making a loud bang like the sound of a balloon popping and the hands....not even a flinch.
On one particular case the tiny baby wasn't even the size of a normal newborn. They were accessing the thoracic cavity through the rib cage and at one point Dr. Russell asks Dr. El Tayeb, "Do you think you can fit your finger in there?" He wasn't joking, he was serious. I paused...did they even realize what they were asking? They were attempting life or death surgery and couldn't even get close to the work area. In the end Dr. El Tayeb didn't have to anyways.
I'm just loving it!
Hasta!
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