Blood & guts [videorecording] : a history of surgery. Episode 2 : Bleeding hearts
Publisher: Frenchs Forest, NSW : BBC Active, c2006Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 53 min) : sd., col. with b&w with sequence ; 4 3/4 in.Other title: Bleeding hearts.Subject(s): Heart -- Surgery -- ComplicationsDDC classification: 617.41201 Summary: Operating against the clock, bizarre experiments on groundhogs, and a crazed rabbi and a pigs heart; Bleeding Hearts is the story of heart surgery. Pumping 48 million gallons of blood in a lifetime, the heart is the engine room of the body; if it stops, we stop. Once the heart stops beating, we can survive for less than four minutes. So how to operate on it without killing the patient? This central conundrum made heart surgery almost unthinkable until just 50 years ago. This educational BBC programme traces the race against time that heart surgeons faced as they pursued one dream - to be the first to successfully operate on the body's most vital organ.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| Media Resources | Taylor's Library-TC | 617.41201 BLO 2006 (Browse shelf) | DVD | 1 | Available | GENxx,GENxx,02,GR | 1000526624 |
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Operating against the clock, bizarre experiments on groundhogs, and a crazed rabbi and a pigs heart; Bleeding Hearts is the story of heart surgery. Pumping 48 million gallons of blood in a lifetime, the heart is the engine room of the body; if it stops, we stop. Once the heart stops beating, we can survive for less than four minutes. So how to operate on it without killing the patient? This central conundrum made heart surgery almost unthinkable until just 50 years ago. This educational BBC programme traces the race against time that heart surgeons faced as they pursued one dream - to be the first to successfully operate on the body's most vital organ.
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