Pierced Hearts. A Surgeon on the Most Hopeless Patients and Attempts to Save Them
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How to remove a piece of reinforcement from a child's chest?
What to do if a bullet hits a blood vessel and is now heading towards the heart?
How to resuscitate a pregnant woman with stab wounds, so that both she and her baby survive?
When other doctors doubt or give up, Westaby boldly takes the scalpel!
Stephen Westaby is a renowned cardiac surgeon, a research innovator, and a brave professional. It was he who urinated through a catheter into his shoe during an operation to save time. It was he who took on the task of saving the life of a dying motorcyclist when his own jaw was broken. It was his patient who lived the longest with an artificial heart and made it into the record books.
Westaby has dedicated his life to cardiac surgery - he always took on the most hopeless cases and worked miracles.
In this book, he opens the door to the operating room of the famous Harefield Hospital, a leading center for cardiac surgery in Birmingham, Alabama, where he engages in a real battle with death.
The author describes the most complex cases from the practice of a cardiac surgeon, the difficult fates of patients, and the general problems of the healthcare system that were revealed during the Covid-19 virus pandemic, which Stephen Westaby learned about in Wuhan before the rest of the world identified it.
"Most freshmen (including myself at one time) dream of becoming surgeons. Eternal madness in the operating room, a person's life hanging by a thread, time running out, complete dedication, immense responsibility, failure, conversations with loved ones. Nothing less than a script for a new popular series. However, before you is a book by a real madman and daredevil, a trauma surgeon, who tells stories from his practice. And each clinical case he describes, starting from car accidents and ending with gunshot wounds, is striking. But in reality, this is not the story of one person, it is the reality of any surgeon. Low bow to you, colleagues!"
Ruslan Rud, cardiologist, author of the medical blog ruslan_cardio
"Each story in this fascinating book is a new surgical adventure that takes your breath away... Gifted surgeon, Westaby is a born writer. This book is a chronicle of bloody exploits, a story of modern cardiology, a tribute to patients and surgeons." - The Daily Telegraph
"Westaby is a surgical genius: authoritative, interested, passionate, and convinced. His book, annoyingly well-written for someone who has only written medical articles and manuals, reads like a thriller, only with a lot more corpses. You rush to finish each chapter to find out if his patient, who is definitely supposed to die, will survive." - The Times
What to do if a bullet hits a blood vessel and is now heading towards the heart?
How to resuscitate a pregnant woman with stab wounds, so that both she and her baby survive?
When other doctors doubt or give up, Westaby boldly takes the scalpel!
Stephen Westaby is a renowned cardiac surgeon, a research innovator, and a brave professional. It was he who urinated through a catheter into his shoe during an operation to save time. It was he who took on the task of saving the life of a dying motorcyclist when his own jaw was broken. It was his patient who lived the longest with an artificial heart and made it into the record books.
Westaby has dedicated his life to cardiac surgery - he always took on the most hopeless cases and worked miracles.
In this book, he opens the door to the operating room of the famous Harefield Hospital, a leading center for cardiac surgery in Birmingham, Alabama, where he engages in a real battle with death.
The author describes the most complex cases from the practice of a cardiac surgeon, the difficult fates of patients, and the general problems of the healthcare system that were revealed during the Covid-19 virus pandemic, which Stephen Westaby learned about in Wuhan before the rest of the world identified it.
"Most freshmen (including myself at one time) dream of becoming surgeons. Eternal madness in the operating room, a person's life hanging by a thread, time running out, complete dedication, immense responsibility, failure, conversations with loved ones. Nothing less than a script for a new popular series. However, before you is a book by a real madman and daredevil, a trauma surgeon, who tells stories from his practice. And each clinical case he describes, starting from car accidents and ending with gunshot wounds, is striking. But in reality, this is not the story of one person, it is the reality of any surgeon. Low bow to you, colleagues!"
Ruslan Rud, cardiologist, author of the medical blog ruslan_cardio
"Each story in this fascinating book is a new surgical adventure that takes your breath away... Gifted surgeon, Westaby is a born writer. This book is a chronicle of bloody exploits, a story of modern cardiology, a tribute to patients and surgeons." - The Daily Telegraph
"Westaby is a surgical genius: authoritative, interested, passionate, and convinced. His book, annoyingly well-written for someone who has only written medical articles and manuals, reads like a thriller, only with a lot more corpses. You rush to finish each chapter to find out if his patient, who is definitely supposed to die, will survive." - The Times
Author:
Author:Stephen Westaby
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:Humor & Entertainment
- Category:Medical Books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
Dimensions:
Dimensions:21.5x14.5x2.3 cm
Series:
Series:Medicine Without Borders. Books about those who save lives
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
Product type:
Product type:partial varnish
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-04-187216-8
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