Aneurysm coiling

Watched an cerebral aneurysm coiling done today, over at the University Hospital. Everything was done via fluoroscopy/angiography, but I saw everything from the inserting of the catheter...to coil insertion...to application of closing device. All done on a computer monitor. The procedure went well. Plugged a fairly small aneurysm with two small coils. Procedure took about two hours.

Heard about vasospasm and vasoconstriction. Some minor mentions of atherosclerosis and stroke. All these big words. Well, if an engineer can use them, can't be that impressive now, can it? lol...

What can I say? Doctors simply have the most dramatic showing. But we all walk down these roads sometimes, asking ourselves if we could do it...it'll take a while to convince someone to take a tube and stick it into an artery and push it all the way into the brain...but how much would it take for a drunk guy to get behind the wheel? Cause and effect, I guess.

All the sudden, I realize how unready I really am...