Surgeon Makes Tutorial DVD For Conscious Open-Heart Surgery 170
Lanxon writes "Swaroup Anand, 23, from Bangalore, was fully conscious as he underwent open-heart surgery. An epidural to the neck, administered at the city’s Wockhardt Hospital, numbed his body during the procedure. Dr Vivek Jawali pioneered the technique ten years ago and has recently released a tutorial on DVD, which gives a step-by-step guide to the procedure for other surgeons to watch and learn from."
Would you like to be awake for this procedure? (Score:5, Funny)
Doctor: Would you like to be awake for this procedure?
Patient: WTF???
Re:Would you like to be awake for this procedure? (Score:4, Funny)
My thoughts exactly.
I'm sure there's probably some valid medical reason for doing this -- I just have no idea of what it is. I don't want to be awake when the heart-rate monitor goes to a flat tone. Well, I guess you'd no longer be awake at that point, so it's moot. ;-)
Cheers
Re:Would you like to be awake for this procedure? (Score:4, Funny)
Dr.: WTF?
Paitent: Huh?
Nurse: Ohh...that's isn't good.
Patient: WT.......
Re:Bad Idea! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, I can foresee a whole new category of Darwin awards being handed out for that one. :-P
Cheers
Re:Prior Art (Score:1, Funny)
Pretty sure the guy from Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom too.
Re:Absolutely (Score:5, Funny)
I bet Spongebob is awesome on morphine.
Re:Would you like to be awake for this procedure? (Score:4, Funny)
This text only interface for communication doesn't sufficiently deliver the same weird look I'm giving you right now.
I wish I had a webcam and photobucket available right now.
xkcd (Score:1, Funny)
Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned:
http://www.xkcd.com/218/
Not for the weak of heart (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bad Idea! (Score:5, Funny)
If me and my roomates can learn to preform open heart surgery on each other - why on Earth will we need to go to a surgeon!!!
Unions? ~
Re:Hi doctor nick (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Advantage? Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Would you like to be awake for this procedure? (Score:3, Funny)
Plus, a conscious patient can tell you if something starts going wrong.
Re:Advantage? Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Would you like to be awake for this procedure? (Score:4, Funny)
I wish I had a webcam and photobucket available right now.
How interesting, the rest of us are thankful you do not.
Re:Absolutely (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Advantage? Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
You'd think a reverse vampire would put blood into people, though.
Re:You aren't exactly wide awake... (Score:4, Funny)
You have a duty to your fellow man to continue paying taxes.
Re:Absolutely (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Absolutely (Score:3, Funny)
A sponge is pretty small.
Re:Does DVD include different Camera Angles? (Score:1, Funny)
No, this is not Directors Cut, they decided it would be better to let the surgeons do the cutting.
Here's the real tutorial. (Score:4, Funny)
1: Ignore the screaming patient on the table.
2: Use leather restraints on the patient. The web ones are too easily snapped by someone in a full fight-or-flight frenzy.
3: Avoid the use of the word "oops"
4: Avoid the use of the phrase "uh oh"
5: NEVER use "oh shit", "oh crap" or any other variants thereof.
6: Have a mallet ready for "topical anesthesia" if necessary. If the need exists, apply to patient's forehead both vigorously and repeatedly.
7: Use surgical drapes, most patients freak (hard!) if they can see their own inside pieces and parts.
8: Avoid calling your surgical assistant "Igor", even if that is his name.
9: Refrain from cackling maniacally.
Re:Would you like to be awake for this procedure? (Score:3, Funny)
The two of you are crowding out the kids posting from their mom's basement. Please, get off the Internet.
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