In the hall number 7 is the hierarchy to the head. Omer Dzemali has to take a back seat.
After he let the chief physician of the heart surgery from the anesthesia on the state of things, he assembled his magnifying glasses, the rack with the special head lamp. It is still dark. In front of him the blue hose of the the head doctor, working for several hours to the heart of the patient lights up. Glass fibers transport the light from a small device on the floor, the back, and finally on the forehead of the surgeon – it is a bit like the television: The camera, the light lit, is the most important.
The Running Gag, here it goes
If Omer Dzemali finally stands at the front of the table, he wishes that this will be driven down. Further, demands of the boss. “We are at the very bottom, Omer,” the voice on the other under a mask. It almost seems as this would be a Running Gag, the sign that the Operation has now reached the point where the chief needs to answer. Ran may.
Since September of 2018, Omer Dzemali chief of cardiac surgery at the city hospital Triemli , he has taken over from Michele Genoni, who has guided the fortunes of the clinic before, about ten years. Under him, Dzemali has worked since 2009 as a senior doctor. Prior to that, he was in Frankfurt and Mainz, where he also studied. The first two years of study, 1990 to 1992, in Sarajevo, were not recognized him. The Albanians from Macedonia came as a war refugee to Germany, in a plane of the UN, there was standing room only.
The memory returns
He love his work as a surgeon, told the 48-year-old Dzemali in his office. There he waits for his phone to ring, that he must answer. So close in may. Aortic arch replacement, congenital valve defect fix, four Bypasses, to relieve pressure on the diseased coronary arteries, a hole between the right and the left Atria closing, “a Patient with many problems,” summarizes Dzemali.
So violent the intervention was alone, as she spread the chest, or the circulation to a standstill – as soon as I go to the patients after the surgery each of better. Also in love with Dzemali in his profession: that you can see what you achieved. “O. Dz.” on the right cuff of his white shirt.
After his first Operation, the first which he made alone, he’d been totally finished. A triple Bypass wars, Dzemali still remembers exactly how he likes to even remember each individual intervention, if he has the patient, or the patient. Or on a Mail, a letter, reads a thank you card the name.
Since 2009, at the Triemli, since 2018 chief doctor: Omer Dzemali. Image: Reto Oeschger
The first surgery alone: step-by-step, he had been to this point, his Mentor, was the first Time where Dzemali stand always at the place of first assistant. The first Time he was allowed to decide on the height of the operating table, as the Operation was in the critical Phase. He was after the procedure, pretty sure that is with him, and the heart surgery is nothing. And enjoyed at the same time, as the adrenaline shot through his body; it was still the same today, he says. The Operate: The beautiful manual work, the rest in the OP that he was looking for.
the silence in The operating room. Apart from the beeping of the machines and the chat Dzemalis, but then it is down here, nice and quiet. Now he is not only at the table of the boss, now Dzemali dominated the room, his concentration is palpable and the noise level is audible, the up and down of tension.
The patient’s heart no longer beats, the heart-lung machine has taken over its function. The quiet hum of the machine instead of the shock of the heart. It is now completely silent in the room.
Sometimes all relax, except the medical student, also at the table.
standing at the head of the patient, looking at the flaccid heart, the Dzemali straight (and literally) from the Rest of the body separates. Small incisions in the thickness of the aortic wall, and then small stitches through it, it is believed, to feel the rhythm Dzemalis. His staff to do it obviously, the first assistant, the surgical assistant to his Right, they work almost without words.
At the end of a step, the boss relaxes, when Omer Dzemali’s doing it with a small spell, then all of the other relax. Sometimes all relax, except the medical student, also at the table. You must then answer questions from the boss. Questions to vessels, nerves, the next steps of the procedure.
For a long time now, and friends
The Operation, which is a part of the work. With a patient who is sleeping deeply, has ceded control of his body to the Doctors and machines. The power of fear, because the people are all the same. With this fear, Dzemali is faced at the round table in his office every day.
This is the other part: The patient sitting in front of him, usually accompanied by relatives, which multiplies the fear. Omer Dzemali must then find the right tone, create trust, in order for this to occur, what he calls a “friendship”. That you can trust before, during and for a period of time after the Operation.
In the Museum of the gratitude
According to gross, is the gratitude after the surgery. Dzemalis office is something like a small Museum of gratitude: images of the he has to get a gift cards, concert tickets, a painting of mother Teresa, which made it possible to paint an Albanian Patient with a relative for him. Another has a heart tattoo. Including
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Created: 24.01.2019, 22:11 PM
