[PIANO PLAYING] OK, 6:00 AM, right on time. It's the story of my
professional life, getting to the
hospital in the dark and going home in the dark. We have surgery this morning. We operate most mornings. We're doing open heart surgery
on a patient this morning, a minimally invasive
mitral valve repair through a little
incision in the side. Ready to go. Patients are nervous
before open heart surgery. It's pretty understandable. But I always tell them
the important thing is I'm not nervous. Hey, good morning. Good morning. So you-- you showed up, huh? [LAUGHTER] That's half the battle. Just showing up is
half the battle. Yeah. You all set for today? So it's just like we
talked about in the office. We're going to work on
fixing your mitral valve. Going through the side? We're going to do a little
two inch incision in the side. Yeah, everything is
favorable for that, yeah. So just like we talked about. So anything go on last
night I need to know about? No major issues, no. Yeah, OK. Well let's go down to the
ICU, and we can review the patients that are there. OK, good morning, everybody. What's the plan? The plan is if we can get
the tubes out today and maybe keep the wires another
day, and send him upstairs. Can he go upstairs today? Yes. OK, very good. Any issues we need to take care
of before I go to the operating room? No, sir. Nope. OK. All righty. All right, have a good day. And I'll catch up with you
on the floor after surgery. All right, thank you. The operation is like a
well choreographed ballet. Everyone knows their role. The technicians,
and the scrub techs, and the perfusionists who
run the heart lung machine, all these people are
very sophisticated. They all know
exactly what to do. So the environment
is very controlled. It's very pleasant. We actually listen to music. 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
in 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. OK, 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. OK, well we're all finished. Surgery's over,
everything went fine. 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. OK, everything went great. Yeah, we're all done. The operation was
nice and smooth. Everything went fine, OK? The nurses will give
you a full briefing on what to expect once
you see him in the ICU. Wonderful. OK? I appreciate that. All righty. Thank you so much, Doctor. And we'll talk later. All righty. OK, well the first
case is over, and had a successful completion. So I'm pretty satisfied. One thing about cardiac surgery
is that every day is a new day. It's exciting. 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.
I loved that! Watching wholesome videos like that always cheer me up and I needed it today, thank you:)