Surgery Live channel 4

Damn, wanted to watch this. Does anyone know how long it takes to come on 4oD catch up, after airing on TV? I'm checking now, it's not on.

If your interested mate, check this site out. Loads of taped surgeries, some sponsored though.

http://www.or-live.com/index.cfm

Hey, thanks a lot for the link, will check it out.

True. I saw some poor scrubbed cameraman leaning over the ether screen trying to get a shot of the field, bloody hard without getting in the way. It all seemed a little awkward tbh, lots of time filling "explaining" and sound problems. Hopefully they will clear it up before next week, it's certainly a novel idea.

The surgeon did seem on top of things, and they were compensating for what wouldn't have been the case in a normal operation.

e.g. they said they were cooling the heart more regularly, because of the hot lights.

These guys aren't stupid, they knew what they were doing =] hehe

But yeah, the surgeon was definitely putting the patient first, and he knew when he needed to concentrate more, that the live feed should be switched off.

Its a shame it over run and they didnt show them restarting the heart - something I was quite looking forward to... Its being shown next week though =]

Really interesting show - brain surgery next week haha

The next episode is tonight:

http://www.channel4.com/explore/surgerylive/surgical2.html

Going by the Facebook group quite a few people have been operated on by Francis Wells is he one of the few surgeons in the UK who can do it?

Might be just that specific procedure...

According to a quick google, he has done 568 operations in the last 3 years. With a 96.8% survival rate.

And hes been practicing for 33 years.

This guy is a pro. =]

Gah, I missed it. And by the looks of things the whole show won't be going on 4oD.