Live tweeting an open heart surgery
Memorial Hermann hospital in Houston, TX live tweeted an open heart double bypass surgery from beginning to end on February 21st, 2012. These are the tweets, pictures and videos of the #MHopenheart procedure.
Welcome! First LIVE #Twittercast of an open #heartsurgery for the US by Memorial Hermann #hospital in #houstontx #MHopenheart- It is 7:35am at Memorial Hermann Northwest Hospital in Houston, Texas twitpic.com/8msuzd
- Today, we provide an educational inside look into a common double bypass #surgery with live video and pics #MHopenheart
- Patient: M, 57 yr old with a blockage of the coronary artery. For patient privacy we are not disclosing name, other identifers #mhopenheart
- patient consented to this broadcast of his surgery, for protection his name will not be given. #mhopenheart twitpic.com/8mt1p6
- Video of patient rolling into OR for prep #mhopenheart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CabjkIlEuRE
- Chris Haskins, CV Operating Room Team Leader, prepares the patient with the team twitpic.com/8mt5mb
- setting up a cardiac angiogram, this is used to prepare to reference targets during bypasses #mhopenheart twitpic.com/8mt7w6
- Dr. Michael P. Macris, board-certified in #cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. memorialhermann.org/physicians twitpic.com/8mtdp6
- Dr. Paresh Patel, cardiologist, will be answering your questions during the surgery. Tweet us @houstonhospital #MHopenheart
- Today Dr. Macris will do a #doublebypass to restore circulation to heart using the patient’s saphenous vein along with his mammary artery.
- Patient is now prepped with Chlorhexidine bit.ly/albRej chemical antiseptic from chin to toe #MHopenheart twitpic.com/8mtpp1
- Patient is supine, arms padded/tucked at side, leg bolster under legs to expose saphenous veins, roll is placed under chest. #mhopenheart
