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I watched it. They gave a 98 year old man a replacement heart valve, but he had a stroke during the Op, and they then had to perform another Op to clear the blockage in an artery in his brain, which they managed to do.
It showed how his operation was delayed due to not have a free theatre, and also the decision meeting to decide if he was worth treating.
My 85 year old Dad passed away last year and I saw the workings of the decisions around whether and how to treat his breathing difficulties, in his last days in hospital. They are not keen to ventilate people over 80, or put them into intensive care.
TrevA wrote:I watched it. They gave a 98 year old man a replacement heart valve, but he had a stroke during the Op, and they then had to perform another Op to clear the blockage in an artery in his brain, which they managed to do.
It intrigued me that they could pull the clot out without the catheter just shoving it further into the artery.
It showed how his operation was delayed due to not have a free theatre, and also the decision meeting to decide if he was worth treating.
That was because the previous job had also gone pear-shaped though, not a lack of facilities.
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Hi, It was the vascular surgery that intrigued me. I had thrombosis in the leg (I was lucky not to lose my leg or worse) took a lot of time to sort it and surgery took two surgeons two hours in late eighties. Point was that post 80 years and they have no chance of surgery on the heart without this keyhole valve. Gripping when he suffered a stoke post valve insertion with in seconds but removal of the clot was an eye opener. He had a prognosis with his leaking valve at 50% sudden death..........what would you choose? He was 98 years. I did say and in previous episodes there is political tones as to beds etc.
NA Thinks Just End 2 End Return + Bivvy - Some day Soon I hope You'll Still Find Me At The Top Of A Hill Please forgive the poor Grammar I blame it on my mobile and phat thinkers.
Much less complex, but i had a torn knee cartilage tidied up by the surgeon poking about in my knee with tiny tools, guided by a camera poked in from the other side. I have ridden with blokes a few years older than me, who have huge scars all round their knees from the earlier "open it up" type surgery, which has much longer recovery time and is much more invasive. i know which I prefer! I think its absolutely staggering what they can achieve by poking about up an artery with a long bit of fishing tackle. The bloke in the TV program had his heart valve fitted by one London hospital, (I was fascinated by the way it folded up, like a magician's bunch of flowers to pull from behind your ear!) When he suffered a stroke, he was taken by ambulance (full crew!) to a different London hospital specialising in stroke where they pulled the clot out. This is all reasonably recent, groundbreaking stuff. My daughter used to work in Addenbrooks in Cambridge, where the same catheter theatre would have done both operations. This isn't to criticise how the London hospitals are organised, just it happened to start in a different way in 2 different places. I don't think you would find an anaesthetist on the planet who would undertake either operation on a 98 year old with conventional anaesthesia and open chest surgery, chances of survival would be vanishingly small. Its very sad that the surgeons are forced to spend so much time sitting around waiting for a bed to become free so they can perform their miracles. Usually because the local Cottage Hospital has been closed, so there is nowhere for Nellie to go to convalesce post- operatively.
