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Cardiac Surgery
The heart and great vessels: bypass grafting built on the coronary map, valve repair and replacement stitched millimetres from the conduction system, and the physiology of cardiopulmonary bypass, the machine that lends the patient a heart and lungs for an hour.
Backdrop: A cardiac surgery operating room · Pfree2014 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The operations
Procedures
What the specialty does in theatre, with the imagery that goes with it.
What the specialty does in theatre: each operation with its image, its indication, and the doors into OR prep and the step-by-step walkthrough.
Featured operation
Coronary artery bypass grafting
New plumbing around blocked coronaries: conduit from the chest wall and leg, grafted onto the arteries beyond their disease, classically on a heart stopped and lent to a machine.
Indication: Left main or three-vessel coronary disease, and diabetics with multivessel disease, where surgery outlives stenting.
Common and emergency operations
The rest of the list
The room
Inside the cardiac surgery OR
Hub shaped by the Surgical Specialties Lead with the Cardiac surgery reviewer (open seat). Images and videos carry their source; educational use for supervised learning, not clinical guidance.