In open heart surgury...after they crack your chest...how do they put it back together?
928914
They use stainless steel wires, and its not a neat job. You should see my X ray pictures. It looks like my three year old trying to lace his shoes.
310210
you can't, surgery is the only option. also its important you get it re-done, by open procedure this time, or it may strangulate.
737489
First they surgically remove all the organs through a small cut in the stomach, then they liquified the brain with a thin metal rod through the nose and poured it out by flipping the body over. They left the heart in beliving that the heart is what we thought with. They stored all the organs in jars to be entomed with the body. Then they covered the body in salt for about a month to dehydrate it. After a month they then wrapped the body in pitch and linnen, with small amulets wrapped in the bandages for protection. After the linnen then they put him in a gold casket and then the stone one.
462287
call 911 then its 5 compressions to 2 breaths, you compress the sternem in between the lower portion of the ribs
1002930
in japan (idk if it's available in the us) there is a method of plastic surgery in which they insert something into your legs and break the bone and pull it apart ever so slightly. then they let it grow back, break it again, and let it grow back again. This is repeated until the person is satasfied or the bone gets too weak.
522983
If you have a post mortem (autopsy), then all your internal organs are removed and examined. After this has been done, they are all placed in a plastic bag in your abdomen, and then the body is sewn back up.\n\nIf you don't have a post mortem (autopsy), you will most likely be embalmed. This process involves draining all the blood from your body and replacing it with embalming fluid to slow down the decaying of the body. In this process, the embalmer places a sharp trochar into the abdomen and uses it to puncture the internal organs so that all the blood can be drained. No organs are removed or put in plastic bags and the body is not cut open in any way.
1065723
This doesn't necessarily mean the MD  did anything wrong, and the minor blockages could potentially be problematic. It may not have been anything he could fix. There may be enough blood flow from the new grafts to give blood flow to the areas with the blockages. Im sure they have been advised of diet and lifestyle changes. Hopefully they are involved in a cardiac rehab program. My advise is to be as healthy as possible, now that they have new grafts to take care of, because it does mean that they wont clot off in the future. Good luck to you and your family.
359505
Ill try-\nBlood comes into the right atrium, then to the right ventricle..it stays on the right side at first.  This blood doesnt have any oxygen in it, so the first thing you have to do is get it oxygenated-So, the blood goes from the right ventricle to the lungs.  Here, the blood picks up oxygen for the rest of the body, but it still has to be pumped to the rest of the body.  So the blood goes fro mthe lungs back to the heart, but this time it goes into the left atrium, then the left ventricle-from there is goes everwhere in the body, delivering oxygen.  Now, once the body has taken all the oxygen out, the blood goes back to the right atrium, for the whole cycle to start again.\nhere's the overall flow:\n\nBlood from the body without oxygen--->\nright Atrium--->Right Ventricle--->\nLungs, so it can get oxygen--->\nLeft Atrium--->Left Ventricle--->\nRest of the body, to deliver oxygen---->\nBack to the right atrium once the oxygen is used.
701984
I have to operate on an open heart patient... but I figure he can wait, i mean he has already waited a long time in the heart donor line so what is a few minutes while I answer some of these dumb questions?
97683
Perhaps you mean Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), the process to help re-start someone's heart after they have a heart-attack?\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpr
392559
alright instead of a long docter explanation, its a shortage of breath and your chest when trying to regain breath its kinda like a positive negative reaction. they suck but if u loose breath again and slowly come back to breathing normal youll be fine.
88004
Tzar's right.  Relax.  Just remember \n\n1/ your ratios of chest compressions to breaths, 5:2 by yourself (10:1 in pairs if I remember correctly)\n2/ three finger widths up from the peak of the sternum, two fingers to the left, place the heel of your hand\n3/ don't rock during compressions.  it should be a vertical up and down motion\n4/ stay calm and focused\n5/ make sure the head is fully extended, the airway is open and there are no obstructions in the mouth.\n6/ make sure you pinch the nose!\n\nyou'll be fine.
131454
Like any organ, a heart loses its transplantability rather fast, so it needs to be taken out of the donor as soon after death as possible.  Special personnel do this and then type the heart (or other organ) to see if it can be transplanted into someone on the waiting list (that's how it works in the USA).  If so, they pack the organ in ice, put it in a cooler, and fly it wherever they need to go with it... :)
997578
ummmm heart transplant takes roughly 15 hours. \n\nnaw look I know your hurting and that's pretty normal. 3 years is a long time to spend with someone for it to fall to floor. Not all guys are like that but sadly some are. \n\nIf your out of this relationship that's good because you deserve better. take some time and know that this was none of your fault then slowly pick up whats left of your broken heart and move on. but always keep in mind those things you have learned so not to follow your past. best of luck.
499426
Yeah it sounds like you have a rib out of place, ive had it happen to me a few times, make a appontment with a chiropractor, they will put it back in place and show you things you can do to stregthin that area so that way your rib wont pop back out, if you need a quick fix right now... the way i seen to get it back in at home, have you ever seen some people cross their arms and have someone lift them up to crack their back, well same idea but just sit on the persons lap, tell them to go up and back as much as possible arching your back as much as they can. This dosent always work but for the most part it does, the sure way to know if your rib is out of place from what i know is if it hurts to take a deep breath. sit in place and breath in as much as possible if you have a sharp pain in your sternum or in your back then yeah you know, try to get in today for the best results from your appointment the rib has to be out when you go, they have to know which one it is to give you the best excersises to do to keep that rib in place, if a rib is coming out like that the muscles around the rib need to be streghened to hold it where it needs to be...
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I'm so sorry to hear about your loss.  One can't imagine what you went through.\n\nMy son had this at six weeks old, it was awful but with a 18month as well to look after, everything was awfult then.\n\nHe then had another attack of it at two years of age.  It was only at that time we realised how ill you can get.  I had to hold the oxygen mask to hids face whilst he fought to breathe.\n\nIt was an horrendous time & I now know that once your child has had it, they will always be suseptable for chest infections etc.\n\nI hope you get some serious answers.\n\nTake care
763473
Any doctor or hospital will do it. I remember we did it in biology class in high school. It was a very simple procedure.