Clay requires a heart transplant to be conducted by Dr. Jack Harper, Clay's heart surgeon and friend. Clay asks Dr. Harper to arrange his elopement with Sam and they marry privately at midnight, then Clay goes to the hospital for the operation.

Awake: Directed by Joby Harold. With Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin. A wealthy young man undergoing heart transplant surgery discovers that the surgical team intend to murder him.

We conclude that awake OPCAB is feasible using a combined femoral block/high thoracic epidural anesthesia technique which allows cardiac surgery and harvesting of the saphenous vein. Further clinical experience is required to define the technical limitations of this technique before randomized studi …

A wealthy young man undergoing heart transplant surgery discovers that the surgical team intend to murder him. While undergoing open heart surgery, a man's failed anesthetic leaves him completely alert, but paralyzed and unable to tell his doctors — Anonymous

Awake cardiac surgery represents an appealing methodology among anesthesiologists due to the need to avoid the wide number of side effects and complications deriving from general anesthesia, orotracheal intubation, and opioid administration in critically ill patients affected by serious pulmonary disease and comorbidity.

2008年1月1日 · The purpose of this review is to answer the questions that may arise in the minds of the surgeons and anesthesiologists who wish to start the relatively novel awake cardiac surgery program. Patient selection, technique of TEA, intraoperative …

Awake heart surgery avoids opioids and maintains consciousness, thus leading to the improvement of postoperative course in some high risks patients . Materials and Methods: Thoracic epidural block (C7-T9) followed by awake heart surgery has been performed on two high-risk patients.

Additionally, prevailing defensive medical practice might stop the use of TEA in cardiac surgical patients and, therefore, awake cardiac surgery (ACS). The combination of off-pump coronary artery surgery and TEA appeared to lead inevitably towards awake surgery.

PITTSBURGH, July 5 -- A 51-year-old patient recently underwent coronary bypass surgery while awake. The team of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and VA surgeons and...

Cardiac operations may be performed in a conscious, spontaneously breathing patient, but it is difficult to justify an awake technique in patients undergoing coronary artery procedures with low operative risk. We describe an elderly patient with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in …