Outside Reading 5

I was thinking about it the other day and asked myself, "what if I were one of those patients that were tested on, or one of those patients who was one of the first to do surgery on that had never been done before?..." To me that is a very scary thought. There is always something new coming out, and new technology, tools, etc. Something could always go wrong, even when a doctor is performing a surgery they have done thousands of times.
I read something very interesting; there is a defect where the child is born with their heart's outflow vessels transposed, which means that the aorta emerges from the right side instead of the left of the heart and the artery to the lungs emerges from the left instead of the right. Now, as a result to this defect, blood coming in is pumped right back out to the body rather than first being pumped to the lungs, to be oxygenated. This is unsurvivable. The babies died blue, fatigued and never knowing what it was to get enough breath.
Surgeons being as smart as they are came up with a procedure called the Senning procedure (creating a passage inside the heart to let blood from the lungs cross backward to the right heart) which allowed children to live into adulthood. Unfortunately, the patients' hearts eventually failed.