27 September 2013

Haiku

Congenital Heart Surgery, in Haiku form:

came in short of breath
crash ecmo in the er
you're in trouble now

you gave him to us
he was blue and nearly dead
in six hours, fixed

three am, cath lab
what a bad prognostic sign
we tried, but we failed

operating room
goes quiet when on bypass
now fixing a corpse?

hypoplastic heart
norwood seems like miracle
until patient codes

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