Have you ever placed your hand over your heart and felt it beating? Have you ever been exerting yourself and felt the pulse of your blood in your ears? Have you ever been snuggled up close to a loved one and felt the life beating inside of them? The heart is an incredible organ that works hard to keep the body alive and well. Pumping blood through a most complex network of arteries, veins, and other passages, tissue is oxygenated to stimulate the production of cells. With a job description like that, nothing short of beating heart can keep us alive. For those that are born with heart problems, minimally invasive heart surgery has been developed to help people get back on their feet again.
Minimally invasive heart surgery
Most people who are diagnosed with heart disease can be mended with open-heart surgery. The hard part of this is that open-heart surgery is extremely invasive and requires and lot of time to get over. Minimally invasive allows surgeons to enter the chest cavity without having to disrupt the ribcage and all of the surrounding organs. Open-heart surgery can be very difficult for people to get over, especially those that are week, very young, or elderly. The odds of survival drop dramatically if the body is not fit for the challenge.
Minimally invasive heart surgery has answered many prayers for those who need to have their hearts fixed most desperately. In response to this need, surgeons can enter the chest cavity through very small incisions made into the chest and act as small passageways for surgeons to use for miniature cameras and small instruments. Projecting the inside of the chest onto a TV screen, surgeons can guide their small instruments to success very quickly. The recovery time after a procedure of this nature is extremely short.
Beating Heart Bypass Surgery and Minimally Invasive Conduit Harvesting: Cardiosurgical Techniques, Anesthesia Management
In the early days of cardiac surgery, but also in the following four decades, median sternotomy and cardiopulmonary bypass were nearly always included in cardiac surgical procedures. Less invasive surgical techniques were developed with the aim of reducing perioperative trauma without compromising the surgical result, and things became more complex for cardiac surgeons. They now often had to consider the surgical access of choice and whether cardiopulmonary bypass should be used or not. Since the mid 1990s, not only have several novel minimally invasive surgical techniques been presented, but also further refinements have been recommended from time to time. This work comes to fill a gap in the field of coronary artery bypass grafting and conduit harvesting in cardiac surgery, by gathering the mature version of such new, less invasive techniques combining safety, effectiveness, simplicity, sometimes even reducing procedural costs and that always for the patient’s and for the surgeon
List Price: $ 64.95
Price:
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (Contemporary Cardiology)
This updated and expanded edition of a much-praised classic survey comprehensively reviews the many innovations and changes that have occurred in the practice of minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS). The authors summarize the latest findings and results regarding such new techniques as robotic surgery, hybrid revascularization, the use of OPCAB in high-risk populations, and new less invasive surgical approaches to the treatment of atrial fibrillation. They also provide a medium term update on the current status of MICS in dealing with valvular and congenital heart disease and offer a more comprehensive understanding of procedures like mid-CABCs with longer term follow-up and randomized data to help tease out real benefits and limitations.
List Price: $ 209.00
Price:
Techniques for Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Bypass (MIDCAB) Surgery (Books)
The MIDCAB approach is a breakthrough that should benefit patients and reduce costs. Techniques, early results, and future directions are presented by an international group of experts.
List Price: $ 42.00
Price: