Count to Seven | Dr Siddhant R Vairagar | TEDxSRIT

3:47 a. m. Operating theater.The patient is lying on the table. His chest is cracked open, hard, visible. We're doing a coronary artery bypass surgery.Everything is going fine. The team is focused. And at a point a suture tears.Blood starts pooling. Alarms ringing. Monitors screaming.The pressures dropping to 90, 60, 85, 80, 75. My hand is inside someone's chest. And every instinct in me is screaming, "Do something. Fix this." Now, here's what my mentor taught me to do in these situations.Count to 7. 1 2 3 ...