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Heart surgery
This is a cardiopulmonary bypass pump used for coronary heart surgery, valve replacement and aneurysm repair at Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, teaching hospital of the School of Medicine at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
The heart is packed with ice and cardioplegic solution, which makes it stop beating. The pump supplies the body with oxygenated blood. The woman with arms crossed is a perfusion technician, who keeps a close eye on everything, under guidance from the surgeon and anesthesiologist.
This image is from a combined ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm repair with concomitant aortic valve replacement.
Heart surgery
This is a cardiopulmonary bypass pump used for coronary heart surgery, valve replacement and aneurysm repair at Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, teaching hospital of the School of Medicine at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
The heart is packed with ice and cardioplegic solution, which makes it stop beating. The pump supplies the body with oxygenated blood. The woman with arms crossed is a perfusion technician, who keeps a close eye on everything, under guidance from the surgeon and anesthesiologist.
This image is from a combined ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm repair with concomitant aortic valve replacement.