The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ by Reinhard Friedl

Author:Reinhard Friedl [Friedl, Reinhard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medical, Cardiology, Surgery, Cardiothoracic, Biography & Autobiography, Medical (Incl. Patients), General
ISBN: 9781250274878
Google: c_X4DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published: 2021-08-24T00:01:54.479522+00:00

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Statistically speaking, the mortality rate for heart operations is very low. On the operating table, only extremely severe cases end in death. For example, an acute cardiac arrest involving a tearing of the heart wall, or sometimes an accident victim with grave injuries to the heart and lungs whose vessels have ruptured. I remember a young woman who was crushed in her car during a horrific accident. She reached the ER of the clinic alive, and my colleagues from emergency surgery attempted to stem the life-threatening bleeding via an operation. But she did not improve. What had not been clear at first glance was that the heart and the large blood vessels near the lungs were also injured. I was called into the operating room. Specialists from different fields were examining a heart which was only twitching weakly. The shock room resembled a battlefield. Long metal vessel clamps protruded from the open chest. The connections of heart and lung had been partially severed, and the patient’s pupils were wide and fixed—a sign that her brain, too, was no longer responding. For this patient—and for quite a few others—there was nothing I could do.

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