Steve Westaby is a celebrated world-famous heart surgeon who is renowned for being the first surgeon in history to fit a patient with a new type of artificial heart. During his 35-year career as a surgeon he worked at several of the UK’s top hospitals and performed over 11,000 heart operations. He won the Ray C. Fish Award for Scientific Achievement (2004). In 2004 Steve Westaby was featured in the BBC documentary Your Life in Their Hands, which is a long-running series on the subject of surgery.
发表于2024-11-02
Fragile Lives 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
有如读一本心外入门手册。这样一本珍贵的书一定值得在读完后留下些什么,也值得在文字之外多了解些什么。 一、一些视频参考 1. Heart-lung machine心肺机。由体外系统接替心肺功能,使用高钾溶液停搏心脏后进行手术。 视频参考: 心肺机原理 2. 书中提到的部分案例在作者的TED ...
评分 评分我日常喜爱读小说,热衷于在创作者的笔下领略起承转合,挖掘伏笔铺排,赞叹绝地反击。虽然也为不少角色的生死揪心,但大体是知道走向,有个预期的。 拿到《打开一颗心》的时候,也有类似的预期。虽说是非虚构,但总是习惯性的视为“故事”。要给我讲医学史上的故事对不对,人类...
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An incredible memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons and some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he’s worked on.
Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeon’s shoulder. A slip of the hand and life ebbs away.
The balance between life and death is so delicate, and the heart surgeon walks that rope between the two. In the operating room there is no time for doubt. It is flesh, blood, rib-retractors and pumping the vital organ with your bare hand to squeeze the life back into it. An off-day can have dire consequences – this job has a steep learning curve, and the cost is measured in human life. Cardiac surgery is not for the faint of heart.
Professor Stephen Westaby took chances and pushed the boundaries of heart surgery. He saved hundreds of lives over the course of a thirty-five year career and now, in his astounding memoir, Westaby details some of his most remarkable and poignant cases – such as the baby who had suffered multiple heart attacks by six months old, a woman who lived the nightmare of locked-in syndrome, and a man whose life was powered by a battery for eight years.
A powerful, important and incredibly moving book, Fragile Lives offers an exceptional insight into the exhilarating and sometimes tragic world of heart surgery, and how it feels to hold someone’s life in your hands.
we were adrenaline junkies living on a continuous high, craving action. sleep deprivation underpins the psychopathy of the surgical mind - immunity to stress, an ability to take risks , the loss of empathy.
评分we were adrenaline junkies living on a continuous high, craving action. sleep deprivation underpins the psychopathy of the surgical mind - immunity to stress, an ability to take risks , the loss of empathy.
评分医学人文类书籍,今年看过最好的书,集医学知识、种族、人文、生活等元素为一体。特别是youtube上可以找到相关医学案例的采访,增加了阅读体验,太精彩了!
评分推荐这本书,一个心脏外科医生的自传。
评分作者是Pubmed一搜300+,随便一篇就是心脏顶刊的业界大佬。末期病人的故事往往都很动人。肿瘤目前仍没有可观的治疗方法。但是心衰的病人真的是越来越有希望了。尽管我们国家依然走在欧美的二十年之后(书中96年就开始做人工泵了,而我们现在的两个所谓国产泵还依然在临床试验)。就算心脏停止了跳动,神奇的人类与科技仍然可以挽救生命。Indefinitely pulsatile。但是本书对非心脏相关专业的人都略有不友好,建议不是超有信心的朋友还是读中文版,专业词汇着实有点略多。我是建立在体外循环专业的基础上,且对各种泵还略有了解,超级认真的读下去还蛮有滋味。
Fragile Lives 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书