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Airdate: The Operation: Surgery Live

Are you ready for live open heart surgery performed before a studio audience and brain surgery with a patient who was still awake?

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Are you really ready for this one?

Next week SBS will air a UK series The Operation: Surgery Live in which live open heart surgery was performed for a studio audience. A later episode features brain surgery on a patient who was awake! Ewwwww.

At least the audience wasn’t in the operating theatre, but watched in a studio via a link. This one could be up there with Anatomy for Beginners that SBS used to show.

SBS has a “Medical Evolution Season” beginning next week with Michael Mosley’s series Blood & Guts: A History of Surgery at 8.30pm Tuesday, followed by The Operation: Surgery Live at 10.00pm ….rated Y for YIKES!

In this series of specials for the UK’s Channel 4, top surgeons carried out life-changing operations in front of a studio audience, broadcast on live TV.

While performing brain surgery on a patient who remained awake, open heart surgery, keyhole stomach repair and pituitary tumour removal, the surgeons answered questions from television viewers at home sent to the studio via Twitter, Facebook and by phone, as well as from the studio audience.

In this first episode a patient undergoes Open Heart Surgery in front of a studio audience.

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  1. It’s not as gory as it sounds – amazingly hardly any blood.

    You can check out the website at channel4.com/surgerylive and the Twitter feed from when it went out live in the UK at twitter.com/surgeryLive

  2. This is truly bizarre television! NBC Today ran a series of segments called Inside The OR a couple of months ago, in which they crossed to their resident medical expert Dr Nancy Snyderman on location for live heart surgery, brain surgery and a live birth! How’s that for breakfast television? I’m waiting for Sunrise to “borrow” the idea.

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