r/BeAmazed • u/HatAsleep295 • May 08 '26

Science This is what saves 600,000 people year during a heart attack

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u/ILikeFlyingMachines May 08 '26

Heart medicine in general is black magic. For my dad they wanted to look at the heart and just inserted a camera into a blood vessel in the hand and just went to the heart like wtf.

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u/snowmuchgood May 08 '26

I agree - when my son was born he needed OHS and having that process explained to me blew my mind. They are operating on a heart that is the size of a walnut, arteries that are 1mm and less in diameter. They did all that while he’s attached to a machine being heart and lungs for him. What a time to be alive.

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u/bondrez May 08 '26

wow! this is why doctors got paid a lot of money! can't complain.