Surgeons

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Categorie: Documentaire

David Jenkins, a world-leading surgeon at Royal Papworth, performs one of surgery's most technically demanding - and extraordinary - operations. Called a pulmonary endarterectomy (PTE), no other hospital in the UK offers this procedure, and it will take David's patient, 54-year-old grandmother Shelly, to the very edge of life.Shelly has a rare form of hypertension, where her body is unable to dissolve blood clots which have travelled to her lungs and are now blocking her pulmonary arteries. More and more clots are building up, and without the operation she will die. The only way to remove them is to cool her body to just 20 degrees, stop her heart and drain all the blood from her body. She will be technically dead on the theatre table. David has just 20 minutes whilst Shelly is entirely empty of blood to remove the clots, so he needs to be fast. Meanwhile, loving husband Phil sits at home with an agonising wait, trying not to think about worst-case scenarios.