This event, for which a Stars and Stripes reporter visits, isn't news as it's not the first-ever open heart surgery.
Hawkeye did the first one in "OR," Season 3, Episode 5.
Hawkeye did the first one in "OR," Season 3, Episode 5.
Klinger refers to The Wizard of Oz (1939) as a perennial favorite. Although it was re-released in theaters in 1949, it did not become an annual staple of the American public until broadcast on television in 1956, after the war.
When faced with a cardiac arrest the doctors begin cardiac massage ( closed or open) and someone will inevitably say " I've got a pulse ". In reality, this doesn't mean a spontaneous return of cardiac activity, but simply that the massage is being done correctly.
When Klinger is posing for Stars and Stripes, the edge of the tent is opened on the left.
In the OR, when Hawkeye sees that a patient he's about to perform surgery on has an aneurysm, Potter decides that Winchester should do it. Hawkeye protests saying that he's done aneurysms before, but Potter overrules him saying it's Winchester's specialty. It's been established that Hawkeye is Chief Surgeon of the 4077th MASH; therefore, when it comes to medical decisions in the OR, his opinion would supersede all others, even Potter's.