Ten o'clock on a Thursday morning.
In the operating room of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Cardiology Institute in Paris, four ghostly blue figures are active in silence.
The senior surgeon, the clinic manager, the intern and the dresser.
Everyone knows what they have to do.
This morning, they are preparing to perform a triple bypass on a 56-year-old man.
The patient's rib cage is open.
The rest of the body, coated with betadine, disappears under the blue sheet of the operating field.
The surgeons removed an artery from the chest which will be used to bypass the damaged parts of the coronary arteries.
The bridging, a real high-precision sewing work, will be able to begin.
But, for this, the heart must still be drained of blood and stopped.
A cannula is inserted into the right atrium of the heart.
Beep, beep, beep... On the black screen, the heart rate shows green oscillations, and the blood pressure a red sinusoidal.
Everything is normal.
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