Name: Day in the Life: Heart Surgeon
Uploaded: 2020-08-22T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 4 min 17 s
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[Day in the life of a heart surgeon, Paul Massimiano, MD - cardiac surgeon]

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It's the story of my professional life, getting to the hospital in the dark and going home in the dark.

We're doing open heart surgery on a patient this morning, a minimally invasive mitral valve repair through a little incision in the side.

Patients are nervous before open heart surgery.

But I always tell them the important thing is I'm not nervous.

So it's just like we talked about in the office.

We're going to work on fixing your mitral valve.

We're going to do a little two inch incision in the side.

Yeah, everything is favorable for that, yeah.

So anything go on last night I need to know about?

Well let's go down to the ICU, and we can review the patients that are there.

The plan is if we can get the tubes out today and maybe keep the wires another day, and send him upstairs.

Any issues we need to take care of before I go to the operating room?

And I'll catch up with you on the floor after surgery.

The operation is like a well choreographed ballet.

The technicians, and the scrub techs, and the perfusionists who run the heart lung machine, all these people are very sophisticated.

Now the kind of music that we listen to is always a question.

If it were up to me, I'd listen to classical music.

But I've got a lot of 20 somethings and 30 somethings in there that if they listen to classical music, they get bored.

So in order to keep them happy, I listen to rap or hip hop and a lot of pop music.

If you do something 1,000 times or 10,000 times, you get the sequence into your mind.

And then the only thing you have to do is be ready for unexpected circumstances, which in a case like this, would be very, very unusual.

Okay, so I've got these special magnifying lenses on called loops.

And it allows me to see inside a magnified 3.5 times, so everything looks very big and very close.

And it helps us to evaluate valves and coronary arteries.

We were able to fix the patient's valve through a little two inch incision.

He was stable through the whole time, and I'm completely satisfied.

So now let's go give the family the good news.

The nurses will give you a full briefing on what to expect once you see him in the ICU.

Okay, well the first case is over, and had a successful completion.

One thing about cardiac surgery is that every day is a new day.

I've never been bored a single day in my entire career.

So all in all, it's a pleasure and it's an honor to operate on patients and be entrusted with their care.