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Surgeon Makes Tutorial DVD For Conscious Open-Heart Surgery

Posted by samzenpus on from the looks-easy-enough dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Would you like to be awake for this procedure? by EnsilZah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Heh, my brain parsed that as "Where possible, it's seen as safer for the patient to use only lolcats".