Property News · March 12, 2011

A working life: The heart surgeon


The hours are long and the pressure is intense – but Martin Elliott thrives on the excitement and responsibility of saving children’s livesA baby lies prone on the operating table. His eyelids are taped shut, a breathing tube has been inserted into his nose, and his limbs are covered with sheets of plastic. A line has been drawn on his chest to indicate where the incision should be made and nurses paint his body with antiseptic.The nine-month-old Italian boy suffers from long segment tracheal stenosis, a severe narrowing of the tube leading to his only lung (his other lung was absent at birth). He has been brought to Great Ormond Street hospital to be operated on by Professor Martin Elliott, a paediatric cardio-thoracic surgeon who is part of only four or five teams in the world specialising in the type of operation this child needs – a slide tracheoplasty. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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