What does open heart surgery look and sound like?

November 24, 2008

A patient is filmed undergoing double coronary artery bypass.

What does open heart surgery look and sound like?
Dr. Wes
notes that one often underappreciates the sounds and smells of the operating room, noting that “the smell of electrocautery cannot be captured in this video [but] the sound of the bone saw as it cuts through the sternum is recorded… loudly.”

topics: bypass, surgery



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