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What would you have liked to know before having the surgery?
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What would you have liked to know before having the surgery?

This is Brian, a survivor of two iliac and an abdominal aneurysm, who takes us through his journey of an open aneurysm repair. Here Brian discusses what he would have liked to know before his surgery. It focuses on him being told the operation was urgent, but the time taken to operate took longer with limited communication and side effects to the anaesthetic drugs.