WOW! Abuja National Hospital live-tweets heart surgery of 8-year-old girl…it’s happening for the first time in Nigeria
Yesterday, @NatHospital_ABJ, live-tweeted a heart surgery; the 1st hospital in Nigeria to use social media like that.
h/t @Abuja_Facts
— EiE Nigeria (@EiENigeria) August 12, 2015Happening Now: Open Heart Surgery (Ventricular Septal Defect Repair)
Live at the Trauma Centre, National Hospital, Abuja.
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015The procedure is a repair of a hole in the heart. The patient is an eight year old girl and the ailment is congenital - She was born with it
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015The surgeons are prepping and drapping the patient in preparation for surgery pic.twitter.com/w1sXJB6acm
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015The surgeon is performing a Median Sternotomy - opening the chest of the patient.
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015The patient is about to go on bypass - The bypass machine is a temporary replacement of the heart - before the heart is stopped.
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015The bypass machine creates a new route for blood to circulate, so that the heart can be stopped. pic.twitter.com/X8ahKcUjwM
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015The surgeons have connected the tubes successfully and the patient is now on bypass.
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015The surgeons are trying to put a purse string around the RSPV (Right Superior Pulmonary Vein)
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015And now a cannula has been inserted into the RSPV. This is to completely drain the heart of blood.
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015And now a cannula has been inserted into the RSPV. This is to completely drain the heart of blood.
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015The heart has been stopped and the bypass machine is continuing its functions.
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015The corrective procedure is still being carried out on the heart and everything is going fine.
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015The heart has been started again successfully and being tested to work just fine. pic.twitter.com/PJt8QmoCqD
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015The patient has been taken off the bypass machine and the heart takes over. The patient is being closed up.
— Nat. Hospital Abuja (@NatHospital_ABJ) August 11, 2015Who dare say Nigeria is not the giant of Africa? Who?!
