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Hey Biodesign! My name is Jay Mung and I'm going to take you through a lesson I developed
for fifth graders caught "Vascular Plumbing"
Vascular surgery is a lot like plumbing because your blood vessels are a lot
like pipes. They're both tubes that carry fluids over long distances.
Now pipes can clog with hair and grease, and so can your blood vessels with
cholesterol and plaque from eating too many cheeseburgers.
Pipes can break and so can your blood vessels-- this is called a ruptured aneurysm
and this is bad.
Sometimes fixing a pipe causes other damage
the same holds true for surgery
But thanks to Medtech innovators doctors have better ways now. They can use imaging
and special tools to access blood vessels deep inside your body through
a tiny cut in your leg.
This is called minimally invasive surgery.
Now let's try it!
So we have a patient with an aortic aneurysm
which is represented by the hole in
this pipe here.
And we need to patch this hole.
The catch is in order to in a minimally invasive fashion we can't patch it
from the outside
we have to go
from the inside.
So what I did was I took this paper,
I rolled it up,
I put it into this side of the tube,
and I shoved it down with this stick. And so, look at that.
That's my aneurysm patch.
Now, it's time to test it. Let's see how well it holds.
Fail. So I think you can do better than that.
Why don't you try it?
OK, thanks for watching. I hope I get to meet you at the interviews. Bye.