Ascension Seton Medical Center, part of Ascension Texas, recently gave students a behind-the-scenes look at what happens in operating rooms.
Jonathan Yang, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Ascension Seton, told KVUE-TV that the mock surgery event, which included a demonstration of a heart transplant, was a way for doctors to engage young people who may have an interest in medicine and show “the minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour of what it’s like in the operating room.”
Observers asked questions about fat around the heart, bypass surgery and how bodies stay alive when the heart is taken out during a transplant.
The mock surgeries were held in six new operating rooms that are “wired for all the new technology that’s out there,” Dr. Yang said.
Glucose, body mass index and blood pressure screenings for adults were also offered at the event.
