Cleveland Clinic heart transplant surgeons use the most sophisticated technology in the world, but this amazing video proves we should never underestimate the profound power of human touch.
This short video – just 30 seconds – takes you inside a Cleveland Clinic surgical suite. You’ll get a surgeon’s-eye view of a patient’s open chest cavity as doctors cut out and remove the old heart and attach the new one. Keep watching to the very end and you’ll see the surprisingly simple – and human – way the surgeon coaxes the new heart into action.
“It’s like a wake-up call,” says Nader Moazami, MD, Surgical Director at Cleveland Clinic’s Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support. “It’s common practice.”

Watch the heart come to life.