Credits
- Presenter
- Michael Mosley
- Producer
- Claudia Lewis
- Producer
- Kate Shiers-Ghellere
- Producer
- Giles Harrison
Duration: 1 hour
Series about the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery continues with a look at the development of heart surgery, which produced some extremely reckless experiments.
With a family history of heart problems, presenter Michael Mosley takes a personal interest in these pioneers, who teetered on the scalpel-edge between saviour and executioner. Michael has a go at heart surgery, meets a man with no heartbeat and witnesses an operation where the patient is cooled until their brain stops and has all of their blood sucked out.
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