Year: 1979
Type: editorial
Abstract: Suddenly you are the patient and you have full knowledge of every aspect of open heart surgery and exactly what is going to occur on the operating table.As you lay in the hospital bed, you focus on all the cases that have not been successful and wonder what chance you have to pull through the delicate surgical procedure that is going to be performed on you the following day.You have to have an aortic valve replaced, and as Chief Perfusionist of Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, you are well aware that there exists the possibility of not making it off the operating table.
Author: Carl Bell
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4387573427