A musician mimicked playing his trombone during open brain surgery in 2022 at Wisconsin’s UW Health to help doctors fine-tune ...

A patient “played” his trombone while awake during a surgical brain procedure at the University of Wisconsin Health.

During a 2022 brain surgery at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin, a patient brought his trombone, making the hand movements ...

A Wisconsin brain surgery patient shocked doctors when he played his trombone during the operation to ensure the procedure was working. Brian Rust started noticing an intense shake in his hand ...

Rust is also a musician by hobby, playing in three groups. The first, a band made up of DoIT employees, a brass ensemble in ...

Rust brought something unusual with him into the operating room to help his surgeon, Dr. Wendell Lake, ensure he was ...

"My father played trombone and my uncle played trombone, so there is some family history behind it," Brian Rust told CNN. "I just enjoy playing it." Brian Rust is a professional trombone player ...

Brian Rust needed a deep brain stimulation procedure ... ensure he was targeting the correct parts of his brain. He brought his trombone. Dr. Lake said he would never forget such a groundbreaking ...