Teige and Tahg Take on Thrilling Traumatic Thoracic Treatments Day 10

 May 20th, 2021


Another day, another surgery, actually surgeries. Teige and I spent the day watching two valve replacement videos. We started off watching an aortic and mitral valve replacement happening at the same time. It was super cool to see that happen and to know that it can happen. Up till now, we have only seen videos of single valve replacements, but now we have watched a combination of two. It is still so wild to me that they can stop a heart on their own, cut it open, do whatever needs to be done, and then close it back up, then it will just heal. I feel like once you slice open a heart, it should be dead or something. I am just amazed that we have figured out how to make that possible. For our second video of the day, we decided to round out our valve replacements by watching a pulmonary valve replacement. Before this, we had watched an aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valve replacement, but we had not yet seen the fourth and final valve. So, now we can say we have seen all of them! I mean they all are very similar, but it is still so mesmerizing every time I watch one. This marks hour number 48 ¾ of senior project with Tahg and Teige.

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