India News: Doctors at King George's Medical University (KGMU) have successfully carried out a rare beating heart surgery on a 54-year-old man who suffered critic
berland, the codirector of the p pediatric disease. i appreciate your time. i understand you re just finishing your rounds and joining us. you are living this firsthand, you have seven children in your icu, as we watch back to school, and deal with the mask debate and the delta variant, what that s like, seven children, how high is that compared to a month ago, six months ago? it s much higher than what we have been seeing in the past, and numbers, well, perhaps the total number of new cases is slowing down, the important thing is we re still having new cases, and as these children are coming in, many of them are requiring intensive care support. many are on ventilators, ecmo, the heart lung bypass machine. this is ravaging children across our region, and i fear ultimately it may spread further across the united states with the new delta variant. as we watch this play out, i want to bring up the vaccine, you re in alabama, 40%, west
been to before and will be again. gage for now is stable but has the same disease and will one day need a transplant too. love you too, gage. for jason and stacy another long night of waiting and worrying. he sierra is placed on a heart-lung bypass machine to keep her alive as her failing heart is removed. and then the donor heart arrives. doctors inspect the donor heart to make sure there are no surprises. it looks perfect. implantation begins. they carefully attach each artery and the aorta. as soon as surgeons allow blood to fill the chambers, sierra s new heart starts beating on its own. surgeon ma yeda goes to jason and stacy. oh, you re asleep. yeah. it s a long night.
heart/lung bypass machine and is disconnected from the backpack he s been carrying. then surgeons carefully remove his failing heart along with the artificial heart pump. all the hardware inside his chest makes his transplant even more complicated. while they wait for updates on gage, sierra and lindsey reminisce about their own heart transplants. i remember gage sitting up there with me. i remember you guying good-bye. that s it. doctors inspect the donor heart. it looks perfect. the heart is going in. looking good. i thought i d come say hi. looks really good. good. over the next four hours surgeons carefully stitch the donor heart into place. we re all done, then. things went very well. no problems going in. you know, measurably, anyway.