Inflating the lungs
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click to showOne of my favorite parts of heart surgery was that moment after we'd restarted the heart, and before coming off the heart-lung machine, I started to breathe for the patient again.
Squeezing the bag on the anesthesia machine inflated the lungs, which had been collapsed during the pump run. They looked EXACTLY like this.
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