Hand out the specimen bags, and have students gather dissecting tools. In addition they will need 5 cm of the small aquarium tubing,unwaxed dental floss for suturing, and an embrodery needle.
Heart Bypass:
50 minutes
Activities:
1. Students will use their coloring plate # 52 to identify the anterior view and the right coronary artery and the left coronary artery.2. Students will determine on which artery they will perform the bypass and list the artery here___________________.
3. Once identified the students will also flag a section they want to designate as blocked and then begin to do the by pass.
4. Begin by using the scalpel, to separate the artery from the membrane, and muscle.
5. Cut the artery above the blockage.
6. Insert the tubing into the cut end of the artery.
7. Sever the artery below the blockage.
8. Insert the other end of the tube into the artery below the blockage. You will need to shorten the tubing to make it fit.
9. Suture the tubing to the artery on both ends.
10. Be sure to be careful not to tear the artery.
11. Diagram your work or use a digital camera to document your surgery.
12. Have the teacher check your work.
Disinfect your area and return cleaned tools to the tray.
Dispose of the heart in the specimen bag.
Write a report on this experience to attach to this lab sheet. Be sure to compare how it might be different from real surgery and the complications you would have to look out for if it were real surgery. You may use the back of this page. Watch your grammar. Be thorough in your report and refer to the steps when explaining the difficulty encountered. Also please make any suggestions that would improve this lab.