Like water blood will take the path of least resistance !-- The blood is flowing around the blockage back into the cardiac arteries !--- Think U can sew ? -- It's like sewing a water hose together and making it watertight ! -- Can't do it without glasses equipped with loops !--- An incision is made down the sternum the we use a power saw to cut down the middle of the sternum !-- Then we put a jack in the incision and spread the sternum and ribs out the way to give use room to work !-- The pericardial sack ( a sack the heart is in !-- We would put some sutures in tacking it up so the heart was resting in a bowl !-- We then hooked up a bypass around the heart and lungs which went to the heart lung bypass machine !-- We then pour wet frozen slush on the heart to make it stop beating !--- At this point the patient is dead !-- No heart beat --No brain activity !-- So we would do our thing bypassing all the blockages !--Then comes the scary part !--- Warm them back up and shock the heart !--Most times it starts right back up !--Sometimes it was a perfect operation but the heart won't keep beating !--There are only a few bypass machines in any hospital !-- A patient could be kept I've on a bypass machine for days while the heart repairs itself !-- But after a while with no success at getting the heart to keep beating !-- The machine is needed else where !-- The machine is disconnected and time of death noted !
