Coronary Heart Disease – Treatment

If you are diagnosed with coronary heart disease (CHD), often called coronary artery disease (CAD), you will have several treatments available to you. These will depend on your personal beliefs about conventional versus alternative medicine, and on the conclusions you reach with your health care provider. The treatments presented here may or may not be [...]

After Open Heart Surgery

How do you have open heart surgery? That is one of the first questions when your doctor recommends this radical intervention. He called it open heart surgery, but does he really open the heart, cutting through the muscle. How do you have open heart surgery? In the midst of the emotional turmoil brought on by [...]

Caring for Your Incision after Open Heart Surgery

There are a number of reasons for open heart surgery, and various types of incisions. While the standard procedure has, for many years, required an incision from just below the neck to the navel, more recent procedures are done with much smaller incisions. The information here is general. Please ask your doctor for more specific [...]

Heart Bypass Surgery – Not Effective? Worthless?

Heart bypass surgery is not effective, worthless, say some. The same can be achieved in less invasive methods. Heart bypass surgery has become a common procedure in developed countries. Heart bypass surgery diverts blood flow around blocked sections of the heart’s arteries. Heart bypass surgery uses a piece of healthy blood vessel taken from a [...]

Heart Surgery – Post-Operative Nutrition

After heart surgery, post-operative nutrition becomes a matter of great concern. Anyone who has undergone open heart surgery for bypass of blocked arteries, valve repair, or other complications can attest that the thought of a repeat performance is repulsive. Full recovery from heart surgery is desired, and patients fresh out of heart surgery are willing [...]

Heart Surgery – Best Sleeping Position

Heart surgery is an invasive procedure and one that leaves the recovering patient in pain and often a measure of fear. Many questions arise. Some are simple. Some are difficult. One that arises frequently regards sleeping position. What is the best position for sleeping after open heart surgery? The chest has been cut open. Bones [...]

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