The Size of a Walnut: Your Heart in Their Hands

When:
May 25, 2016 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
2016-05-25T18:00:00+01:00
2016-05-25T19:00:00+01:00
Where:
Museum of London, Barbican
Barbican
London EC2Y
UK
Contact:
Gresham College
02078310575

What does it feel like to hold a baby’s heart in your hands? To ‘feel’ their life. No one really talks about this, but as well as the obvious responsibility associated with cardiac surgery on children, there is also (for almost all surgeons) a great deal of emotion.

In an attempt to explain that to you, this lecture compiles a series of video interviews with paediatric cardiac surgeons around the world who explain how that physical contact with someone else’s beating heart makes them feel.

This is a free public lecture by Martin Elliott, Gresham Professor of Physic.

There is no need to book in advance for this lecture. It runs on a first come first served basis.