Okay, so who is interested in seeing actual surgeries?  Because last week the top four students from the health technology program were able to sit in on a surgery at Kettering Hospital and watch a live heart surgery.  No one has had an opportunity like this from our lab and it was amazing!

So our day started out that Mrs. Purcell and the students met at the school at six in the morning we then headed to Kettering, which was an hour and a half away.  When we got there we had to watch a slide show on procedures in that hospitals, we scrubbed in and then we waited for the surgeries to begin.  The first two students were able to see the opening procedure done on a quadruple by pass and another student and I got to see the opening done on arterial valve replacement.  We even got to stand at the head of the operating table about a foot away from the surgery and see everything that the doctor was doing.  Both surgeries took about five hours, which is normal for any heart surgery but could last up to eleven hours. Could you imagine being in surgery for eleven hours?!

Coming to Ohio Hi-Point brings opportunities that you can’t believe.   That opportunity of watching heart surgery came from one of the students knowing someone that could get us into surgery.  Never underestimate what Ohio Hi-Point can do for their students!