Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Aortic Aneurysm Surgery - Interactive


Help Dr. Dixon repair a weakened aorta!

10 comments:

Alex G. said...

I thought this was really interesting! I never knew that 80% of the people diagnosed with that disease are men! I liked actually preforming the surgery and getting to retract the organs and staple the skin shut afterwards.

Anthony said...

I really enjoyed this interactive game! It seemed very complicated, and my hats go off to the surgeons who do this. This game was really personal to me because my grandpa has a weakened aorta, and he might need surgery. It was interesting learning about what happens when you are under the knife. I do wonder why more men are affected than women...

Jacob said...

I thought this game was very realistic, I think it was very cool that you could do surgery on someone to save their lives. In the game the guy had a smoking problem so we had to do surgery so he could breathe better. In the end I thought I was a real doctor.

Jason said...

I thought that this surgery was not realistic at all. It was interesting to learn about all of the tools, but the graphics were terrible.

Ava D. said...

I thought that this "game" was quite disturbing. I looked at the surgery photos, and the cartoon version was quite different from the actual thing. The real pictures had lots of blood and the cartoon "censored" the scenario and said that they would plug the arteries so that the blood would not flow out, but in reality there was blood. I thought that the tools were interesting, but the actual surgery was quite unrealistic.

Gillian said...

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I saw the surgery photos, ugh disgusting. I am glad that I probably will never have an aneurysm, I would like to keep my insides, inside. If I ever have one, thank you surgeon. This is why I'm not becoming a doctor.

Esther said...

I don't know what my opinion on this was, but I must say that the surgery photos were, uh, pleasant.

Cypress said...

I thought that it was interesting to learn about the tools and some of the fun facts and how the surgery is performed, but it was not at all like the real thing because I looked at the pictures and it was completely different. I think this is more catered toward younger kids so they can't really make it look more realistic.

Samantha said...

I liked how this site made you understand what you were doing and why you were doing particular steps in the surgery. What a surprise to learn that 80% of the people diagnosed with this disease are men. It was interesting to learn about all the tools that they used in this surgery.

Cami said...

I really enjoyed performing the surgery. I thought it was a lot of fun, but it was a bit complicated. I really enjoyed it though!