Emergency No: 08062136599Minimally invasive surgery is an operation recommended for patients with heart conditions. It involves small incisions on the right side of the chest. This surgery is less complex than open-heart surgery.
The types of minimally invasive surgery comprise Thoracoscopic surgery which involves small incisions made by the doctor in the chest and inserting a long to view the heart with a video camera. Second is robotic-assisted surgery which involves instructing the robotic arms through the incisions. Small incisions are made in the side of the chest.
Here are various heart conditions that undergoing through minimally invasive heart surgery:
There are some instructions provided by the doctor to the patient before performing minimally invasive heart bypass surgery. It includes:
The following steps are followed by the doctor during the minimally invasive heart procedure:
After the minimally invasive heart surgery is done, the patient might have to spend a day or two in the intensive care unit (ICU). The care team will give lots of fluids and medications to the patients through intravenous lines. Tubes will be placed during surgery so that the patient can drain urine from their bladder and blood from the chest. Oxygen face masks are used so that patients can comfortably breathe.
After monitoring the patient in ICU, he/she will be moved to the general ward or room for some days. The time spent in the hospital entirely depends on the patient's condition after surgery. Till the time patient is in the hospital, the care team will:
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Smaller incisions are made in minimally invasive heart surgery and are often less risky than traditional surgery.
Minimally invasive heart surgery doesn’t leave scarring and even if there are any scars they will be very small than the open-heart surgery.
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This surgical procedure is recommended for patients who have a higher risk or are too sick, or too old for open heart surgery. It was first tested in 2002 on patients with severe aortic stenosis (a narrowing of the aortic valve opening), who were considered unfit for open heart surgery.
Heart failure is a serious condition marked by the inefficiency of the heart muscles to pump blood to different parts of the body. Also referred to as congestive heart failure, the condition can prove to be life-threatening if not addressed immediately. Such patients are often recommended to undergo a heart transplant, a surgical procedure that involves the replacement of a diseased or non-functional part of the patient’s heart with a healthy heart taken from a deceased donor.
Over the past few decades, various innovations and advancements in the field of cardiology have helped us to learn more and more about the human heart, its functioning, and the diseases that affect it.
