The musical instrument in the hands of the 37-year-old Dimitris Kyrtsou It "breaks" the silence that usually prevails over the operating table and the operation evolves while old favorite popular hits are heard. A few months ago, the young man from Veria was in the operating room, for surgery to remove a tumor on his head, playing the bouzouki.
The idea to have with him during the difficult time of the operation the favorite musical instrument, as he says speaking on the radio station of APE-MPE "Agency 104,9 FM", came when he saw other patients abroad who did similar surgeries in the brain, to play music. "Watching videos on youtube of similar operations, I saw a man having surgery playing a guitar and another playing a violin during the operation. I thought "why not me?". I suggested it to my doctor, but it was not possible at that time ", Mr. Kyrtsos explains.
A short time later, however, and while the recurrence of the tumor led him back to the operating room of the same hospital, all the necessary procedures and arrangements were made so that this time he would not enter the operating room alone, but with his company. favorite of musical instrument.
The experienced and renowned doctors of AHEPA performed the surgery after ικής music. As the young patient explains, he was not under general anesthesia, which means that he was conscious and in fact the first song he played was "Mavromata mou", which he dedicated to husband of.
In the video recorded by a camera that was set up in the area, Dimitris Kyrtsos is seen playing the bouzouki lying on the surgical bed, while on the monitor behind him, all the details of the demanding and long-lasting operation were projected.
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"Operating a patient in this way, that is, communicating and talking to doctors at that time, is something that has been happening for at least fourteen years at the AHEPA hospital," the neurosurgeon told the Athenian / Macedonian News Agency. Nikolaos Foroglou, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, who was the surgeon of the patient-musician.
"Operating a patient in this way, that is, communicating and talking to doctors at that time, is something that has been happening for at least fourteen years at the AHEPA hospital," the neurosurgeon told the Athenian / Macedonian News Agency. Nikolaos Foroglou, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, who was the surgeon of the patient-musician.
"This is a technique that ensures the maximum detection of brain tumors, while maintaining its necessary functions," he added, adding that despite the increased restrictions on the provision of services due to Covid-19, provide a high level of services to neuro-oncology patients.
In the case of the 37-year-old musician, doctors were able to obtain information about her mode of brain in addition to answering the questions asked in such surgeries, and the way he performed the pieces of music that he had included in his program. Seeing that the players played them with absolute precision and listening to the skillful whispers, they received the best proof that everything was going well.
"I hope the doctors who were in the operating room liked my music λω I owe them a huge thank you. In addition to the neurosurgeon Mr. Foroglou and his team, I also thank the Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Intensive Care of the Medical School of AUTh Georgia Tsaousi ", says the 37-year-old with emotion, who is looking forward to giving a bouzouki recital with his doctors as guests, not in the operating room, as he says, "but in a nightclub when he gets a good job again".
"I hope the doctors who were in the operating room liked my music λω I owe them a huge thank you. In addition to the neurosurgeon Mr. Foroglou and his team, I also thank the Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Intensive Care of the Medical School of AUTh Georgia Tsaousi ", says the 37-year-old with emotion, who is looking forward to giving a bouzouki recital with his doctors as guests, not in the operating room, as he says, "but in a nightclub when he gets a good job again".
Dimitris started playing the bouzouki at the age of eight and did not leave for a moment. At the age of 15 he started working professionally, participating in music groups, on various tracks in Northern Greece. Also, was present, always with bouzouki in hand, for quite some time a television music show on a local channel in Thessaloniki and it is not excluded that he will soon take action again on the television receivers.
Lately, however, he has been away from live performances, both due to the closure of nightclubs and due to the adventure of his health. However, he expresses his energy and his love for the bouzouki delivering lessons music to young and old students.
"My students ask me how I felt in the operating room and if my bouzouki helped me. The answer is that everything became easier and calmer ", he says characteristically. From the beginning of the quarantine, Mr. Kyrtsos "meets" his students online. "I teach lessons by video calling, but I notice that the children's interest has not diminished at all. Of course, not all of them are children, since one of them decided to learn bouzouki after he retired… ", he states.
"My students ask me how I felt in the operating room and if my bouzouki helped me. The answer is that everything became easier and calmer ", he says characteristically. From the beginning of the quarantine, Mr. Kyrtsos "meets" his students online. "I teach lessons by video calling, but I notice that the children's interest has not diminished at all. Of course, not all of them are children, since one of them decided to learn bouzouki after he retired… ", he states.