Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100704:07:24:00
An incision about mid chest and goes all the way around back and then all the way up the back. it is probably a 12-inch incision and with that you spread the ribs and put your hand on the lung itself and put pressure on it and with that the bleeding stops and once i was inside i saw that a large pulmonary artery and also a pulmonary vein had been lass rated. tying the vessels back together had to resect a small part of the lung damaged and then resected or take out the rib that had been shattered. >> the operation lasted two and a half hours. >> the next day, at the time it was lieutenant colo...