July 17, 2007
- Heart Bypass Surgery Complications - Part 2
Heart bypass surgery is, as we noted in Part 1 of this article, like rerouting traffic around a rock slide that has blocked a highway. A new route is constructed to let traffic flow around the blockage, and the old route is closed forever.
Heart bypass surgery is currently one of the most common surgeries in [...]
July 5, 2007
- Heart Bypass Surgery Complications - Part 1
Heart bypass surgery is somewhat like highway construction work. If a rock slide blocks a highway, a new route can be constructed to reroute traffic flow around the blockage. The old road may never be opened again. It may remain blocked permanently, but traffic flow is restored fully.
Similarly, heart bypass surgery reroutes blood flow around [...]
June 28, 2007
- Bypass Surgery - Fraud or Resolution?
Heart bypass surgery is increasingly used in the treatment of coronary heart disease, yet some believe it is unwarranted. A few believe it is not only unwarranted, but is in fact a swindle - a racket to make doctors rich.
Don’t get bypass surgery; it is fraud, they say. Those who say it, however, have usually [...]
May 31, 2007
- 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 have [...]
May 29, 2007
- 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 [...]
May 5, 2007
- 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 leg, [...]
April 7, 2007
- 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 [...]
March 30, 2007
- 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 [...]
March 17, 2007
- 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 [...]
