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Photo Courtesy of The Nuss Procedure UNDERSTANDING PROCEDURE: This diagram further explains the procedure Purnell underwent.
excited and curious,” said Purnell who has been interested in biology all his life. His curiosity was piqued when science was going to be put to the test on his own body.
The procedure, named the Nuss Procedure after it’s inventor Dr. Donald Nuss, was developed in 1987 at The Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters and Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. The procedure is minimally invasive with two incisions, each an inch long, made in the right and left sides of the patient’s upper chest. A curved metal bar is slid underneath the sternum and then flipped
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