well, I'm in anatomy and we were watching a video about heart bypass surgery where they have a machine that pumps and oxygenates the blood so the doctors can operate on the heart. We also talked about how the pressure in the heart is so great, if there was a hole in the chest, it would spurt blood across the room (we have the weirdest class ever
). I've had normal stitches before and I've also disscected a cat (in said anatomy class). Those arteries are not easy to grasp and must be even worse to reattach with stitches.
I guess I was just wondering if they used stitches (since it seems like they would make tears in the vessel wall due to the enormous pressure). It has to be incredibly careful work to reattach those blood vessels.
-Vivek