Which is worse, brain sugery or heart surgery?
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I take this question on from the perspective of someone who survived brain surgery at a very tender age....and also of having relatives who experienced heart surgery. I would say brain surgery is definitely more problematic over the long term. With the heart procedures they were out and about eventually and back to their version of "normal" not too long after (weeks at the most). The most extreme effect was a need for meds or regular visits to a cardiologist to be sure everything was functioning as it should.
Of course, this doesn't consider the extreme stuff like transplants, which are a whole other area of surgery entirely...both in scope and effects.
Brain surgery....well, there are no guarantees that you're going to come out of it the same person you were when you went into it. In some cases it can be positively devastating in its effects, particularly if you have something like a brain tumor in a place where there are vital functions. It can be virtually impossible to avoid damaging things like motor ability, sensory functions, or even the more subtle aspects such as cognition, memory, etc. when you're doing ANYTHING to the brain. As one person put it when we were having a very long and involved discussion regarding medical history and the peculiarities of my learning that have caused problems with education and holding down a reasonable career, "Of course there's going to be some degree of damage when something (in this case, her reference was to a shunt to drain excess fluid out) is pushed through the brain...".
In a purely physical sense, the heart is a much "sturdier" organ than is the brain. The heart will tolerate far more insult and still carry on functioning closer to normal than the brain will. The heart is a muscle, designed for a lifetime of work and pounding and general stress; the brain is a semi-gelatinous structure that needs much support in order to maintain any sort of shape, and it is very easily injured by anything noxious, be it lack of oxygen, direct trauma, or simply increases in pressure beyond that which is normal. Surgery on the brain is thus far more delicate and fraught with potential harm.
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idk
i would say brain surgery, but they both have VERY HIGH risks
apples and oranges my friend.
hrt sgy carries the risk of necrotizing fascieitis and blood loss and stuff like that.
brn sgy carries the risk of "whoops there goes that function". I think becuase the greater risk lies with the brain sgy that brain sgy is worse.
More advancements have been made in heart surgery than brain surgery.
Recovery from heart is far shorter than from brain.
Some observation with friends, in both.
i think brain surgery is worse than heart surgery, although they're both difficult to perform. In brain surgery, the neuro surgeon deals with the minute brain cells and nerves and an itsy bitsy tiny error may can cause big problem.
Had to have heart surgery when I was 27 - i figured that I'd either wake up afterwards ok or not wake up - and was very thankful I wasn't having brain surgery - where you have that third option of waking up as "someone else". Ya no - maybe that woulda been a good thing!
Both are serious and time consuming!
The brain is a more complex organ that requires more work, so I imagine that it would be sorse..
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