Tuesday, September 2, 2014

The OR nurse communicator called a few minutes ago. Candace went to the operating room at 17 after and is now hooked up to the bypass machine (to keep her blood flowing to the rest of her body without going through the heart.)



The image shows how a heart-lung bypass machine works during surgery.
(Picture from National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/hs/during.html)
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