Doctors brain surgery live stream of conscious woman speaks

25-year-old Jenna Schardt undergoes brain surgery – while awake – in Texas on Tuesday, and the process is on Facebook as a live stream. Doctors with Methodist Medical Center in Dallas the operation performed by a mass of tangled blood vessels in the brain to remove Schardt, who had impaired his speech and caused convulsions. At the start Schardt was placed under anesthesia, so that doctors could cut into the skull. Once he reached his brain, Schardt was awakened, so that it could solve problems and to map their brain response to help doctors. During Schardt surgery it was shown on an iPad which have identified a series of numbers, colors, animals and other objects. Patel said that if Schardt was able to see what was on the iPad, surgeons would know which areas were OK to touch his brain; if they made a mistake, they knew from those areas to avoid. “Basically, we have a GPS tracking system for the brain already, and we have to find out where places are and where we want to avoid is making sure that the places,” Dr. Nimesh Patel, who helped tell method explained in the video. say Orange “Schardt” Each small moves, one millimeter to the left, one millimeter to the right, it can affect their speech. “” Twenty. bananas. Two. He was heard. doctors repeated a series of sequences and Schardt was due to have the same words about Say had all the information it needs, said Patel. tens of thousands of people tuned in for the live broadcast. from Wednesday morning, over 93,000 video views. Schardt, who is studying to be an occupational therapist, said the operation as a live stream to help others that he wanted to have a similar process. a few hours was performed after surgery, the hospital said on Facebook that Schardt has done and with good parents. “I’m impressed by the way,” Patel said in the video. Awake brain surgery has become an everyday occurrence for physicians in recent years, a patient who had a brain surgery at the University of Rochester, Sa xophon, is performed during the process doctors. Live video from the operating room are either unknown. A Texas woman had surgery on her breasts on Facebook in 2018 to raise awareness for the disease as a live stream.
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