Teige and Tahg Take on Thrilling Traumatic Thoracic Treatments Day 1

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Today, May 10th, 2021, Teige and I spent our whole day watching surgeries! We started this morning at 8:45 and went until 12:30 before stopping for a lunch break. After lunch, we picked it back up at 1:00 and watched until 2:30. Today was majorly focused on cardiothoracic surgeries. The first surgery we watched this morning was a cardiac valve replacement. It was so cool to witness one of those surgeries being performed, even if it was online. We watched them stop the heart, open up the aorta, take out the old valve, and put in a new one. At some points, the surgeon was even holding the heart in his hand and all I wanted to do was be there, holding that heart. That may sound super strange, but surgery is what I want to pursue in my life, specifically cardiothoracic surgery. We also watched a slide trachioplastly surgery on a child at Washington University in St. Louis. This surgery was performed to fix scar tissue build-up in a young girl’s trachea, which was basically suffocating her. Personally, I think this surgery was not as cool as the first one we watched, but that is because I am not as interested in the trachea as I am in the heart. All of this took around 5 hours and 15 minutes, which means we are 5 hours and 15 minutes into our senior project!

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