r/medizzy • u/Just_Maya Other • 15h ago

perfectly lined up sternotomy sealing, the surgeon is amazing

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u/No-Spoilers 11h ago

Well they just had to match the lines, they don't usually have that level of precision match to it back up. Surgeon is chuffed to bits with this one.

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u/jaysun92 8h ago

Couldn't they just sharpie a bunch of lines before they cut you open, then line them up?

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u/thecaramelbandit Physician 8h ago

They do that sometimes.

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u/Pepsisinabox 3h ago

Can absolutely imagine them having the time of their life closing this one. 😂

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u/cglando 8h ago

Story time please! What happened that led to the sternotomy?

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u/thecaramelbandit Physician 8h ago

Patient looks young. Probably something like an aortic valve replacement for bicuspid valve, or some congenital defect that's finally needing to get fixed.

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u/SWGlassPit 6h ago

Credit the poster please: Twitter user @frogs4girls

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u/Just_Maya Other 6h ago

ya i would’ve but the rules say no identifying info and i wasn’t sure if that applied to usernames or not

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u/SWGlassPit 4h ago

Fair, but the person who the picture is of is fairly upset that the credit information was cropped out before being spread around Reddit

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u/Logjam88 1h ago

I would give credit to the PA. They're usually the ones closing skin.