Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Open Heart Surgery

Open cardiac/heart surgery is a type of surgery in which the surgeon makes an incision on the skin above the sternum, then uses a bone saw to cut through the sternum in order to have direct access to the heart, for transplantation, or other procedures. In major procedures, the surgeon may attach the patient to a heart-lung machine, also called a bypass, and stop the heart in order to work on it, such as in valve replacements.
Here is video on an aortic valve replacement.


The bone saw looks like this.

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Heart-Lung Bypass

Bypass is used when the surgeon needs to stop the heart to work on it. Tubes are attached from the bypass machine into the major arteries. The patient is intubated to help him/her breathe. The machine will pump the blood and breathe for the patient. This way, the heart can be stopped and blood will continue circulating the body. A heart lung bypass machine looks like this.

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As you can see, there are many complicated tubes coming out it that help circulate blood. It is also connected to a packet of blood of the same type as the patient.
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  1. nameplates20 September 2017 at 22:31

    The open heart surgery is very critical surgery, so it should be monitored every seconds.Refurbished sarns 8000 Heart Lung Machine takes up the function of both heart and the lung during the patient’s operation or surgery. It is referred as Cardio Pulmonary Bypass (CPB) and this machine is used during the coronary bypass surgery. These machines are used to reduce the difficulty in surging on a beating heart thereby reducing the complications in an operation.

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