AW: [HSF] Re: Post op antibiotics, double gloving

[Michael Firstenberg]

careful - this is a family program.

m


On 10/3/07, hgrmd at aol.com <hgrmd at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Damn Prasanna, I'm switching to warm ("like warm apple pie") beating
> mitrals tomorrow!
>
> Hal
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Prasanna Simha M" <prasannasimha at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 14:28:55
> To:OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
> Subject: Re: AW: [HSF] Re: Post op antibiotics, double gloving
>
>
> Well, I have a very OT statement - when we were doing our first degloved
> CMV's one of my colleagues who was a  Casanova  summed it up in a succinct
> manner - Gosh the mitral valve feels like a pu@#y (a baby feline!!). This
> had us all in splits. So much for palpation!!!
> Anyway feeling the mitral valve beating is something unforgettablw.
>
> Prasanna
>
> On 10/3/07, Rwmfglycar at aol.com <Rwmfglycar at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 10/2/2007 8:49:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > prasannasimha at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Well it  was not so long ago as we used to do that as students  when we
> > were  doing CMV's or when we used to palpate for TR's. That decreased
> > after HIV  came into the forefront.
> > Prasanna
> > Jbflegejr at aol.com wrote:
> > > Bob,  I remember certain senior surgeons who cut away the glove
> covering
> > the
> > > finger they were inserting into the left atrium for closed mitral
> > valvotomy
> > > arguing that they needed the tactile sensing possible only  with the
> > bare
> > finger.
> > > I have seen urologists doing the same thing for  suprapubic
> > prostatectomy.
> > John
> > > Flege
> >
> >
> >
> > There was a surgeon Thompson in Rhodesia, as it was called then, who
> grew
> > the nail on his forefinger and sharpened it so that if the commissural
> > fusion
> > did not split he would cut it. He did dip his finger in iodine before
> > putting
> > it  through the appendage.
> > Bob
> >
> >
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