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Pediatric Heart Surgery

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Mike Lu undergoes pediatric open heart surgery to fix a hole in his heart. Fluent in Mandarin, his family's language barrier complicated the otherwise routine procedure.

  • Seven-year-old Mike Lu waits in his hospital bed the day before surgery, to repair a hole in his heart, as his father talks to a doctor. Mike says since he is a boy, he can't be afraid.<br />
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  • Dr. Albert Pacifico stitches up the half dollar-sized hole that was in Mike's heart. Repairing the defect took Pacifico only six minutes; the entire procedure only one hour and 16 minutes.<br />
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  • Shortly after arriving in the CICU (cardiac intensive care unit) , Mike Lu is hooked to a breathing machine and a nurse makes adjustments to one of the many tubes, wires and iv's that sustain Mike.<br />
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  • Although he is still groggy from the anesthesia, Mr. and Mrs. Lu visit with their son Mike several hours after heart surgery and after the bulk of the tubes and monitoring devices have been removed.<br />
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  • Elis Staggs, a pharmacist with UAB, teaches Mr. Lu how to fill a syringe he will soon have to use to administer an antibiotic to his son.<br />
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  • Anxious to get home, Mike and his father check the hallway to see if the wheelchair is ready to take them to the discharge area.<br />
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