Sentence examples for opening the chest from inspiring English sources

Surgeons have used similar methods before, but the procedure required invasive surgery that involved opening the chest cavity.

It involves opening the chest and using a laser to drill holes in the beating heart with the hope of relieving chest pain.

Additional collapse of the lung to its "minimal air" can be accomplished only by opening the chest wall and creating a pneumothorax.

He is widely known as the pacemaker pioneer who, on July 16 , 1958 first showed that pacemakers could stimulate the heart through plastic - covered wires inserted through veins into the heart, avoiding the need for opening the chest to sew electrodes onto the surface of the heart.

In interviews, he and others not connected with Mr. Cheney's case said the implants required opening the chest and could be as arduous for a surgeon as risky for a patient, particularly one like Mr. Cheney, 69, who has had earlier open-heart surgery.

I try to shake off a sudden miasma of turbulent dread, but before I know it I have walked into my bedroom and am opening the chest at the foot of my bed and I am looking through my family's clothes — all else was destroyed or taken away, but the undertaker washed and kept these (kindly, I think) and he gave them to me when I moved into this house.

Enter the temple trials and start opening the chests.

My owner, inspired to compare the products, opens the chest.

Then he opens the chest; it's empty.

"When we opened the chest and pericardium, the heart was distended and blue," he told me.

When they opened the chest an hour later the heart had been fatally damaged.