Abuja National Hospital Performs Successful Heart Surgery on 8-yr-old Girl

 

The National Hospital Abuja has successful performed a heart surgery on an 8-year-old girl, who has a hole in the heart. The hospital has been live tweeting the heart operation on the patient to repair a hole in her heart.

"The patient is about to go on bypass - The bypass machine is a temporary replacement of the heart - before the heart is stopped. The surgeons are prepping and drapping the patient in preparation for surgery.

"And now a cannula has been inserted into the RSPV. This is to completely drain the heart of blood. The bypass machine creates a new route for blood to circulate, so that the heart can be stopped. "The patient has been taken off the bypass machine and the heart takes over. The patient is being closed up. The corrective procedure is still being carried out on the heart and everything is going fine," NatHospital_Abj tweeted.