Worked on a surgical wet lab shoot today for a medical device manufacturer. 50 heart surgeons learned hands-on how to implant one of the manufacturer's new heart valves using pig hearts. We set up an overhead camera and projected the image onto two large screens so the student doctors could follow the teaching surgeon's technique step-by-step. Pig hearts were used because they closely resemble the human heart.
Quite the set up, and if pig hearts work in order to show them how to do the procedure correctly, go for it. Don't want any slip ups if I am on the table.
that's what i heard about how pigs resemble human in an amazingly way! who would thought! ( of course i learned that from those crime sloving shows i'm obssessed with :)
oh wow! This reminds me of our biology teacher once bringing in a pig's lung from the butchers to demonstrate how it changed with oxygen intake... (well, that's almost 20 years ago now!)
How amazing...what an opportunity for you and how nice to hear there are 50 more trained surgeons out there now that can save lives with this new valve hopefully :)
Wow-what a fascinating day at work you had. Thank you for sharing such an interesting insight to the medical world and how those amazing surgeons learn.
I'll never forget the first open heart surgery I ever saw at Northampton General Hospital,UK. The patient was too sick to move so the team was helicoptered in to us.It was during the late 1960's Awesome. Great shot.
That's pretty interesting! makes a nice change from all the nature shots I've been looking at lately! (though, in a way, yours is a nature shot too, eh?)
That's a really interesting shot you don't see every day. Until you look at it closely, it's looks like a party is about to start, and everyone's going to sit down to eat. :-)
I have to say I love your profile shot!