T to the Seventh Day One

 10 May 2021

Welcome to day one of Teige and Tahg Take on Thrilling Traumatic Thoracic Treatments! Today Tahg and I gathered together bright and early at 8:45 to begin watching surgeries. I know this might sound odd, but we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We started the day by watching an aortic valve replacement in which Dr. Ramachandi opened up the ascending aorta and took out the calcified aortic valve. We then moved to a slide trachioplasty on a child, fixing scar tissue build up in the trachea; it took place at WUSTL. These surgeries took over five hours to watch; however, Tahg and I were very engaged in what was occurring. I even went as far as to mimic the suturing that was taking place in the video.


See you tomorrow!

-Teige

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