Minimally invasive heart surgerywhen heart surgery is performed without a large traumatic incision of the sternum through the intercostal incision to 7 cm, it is not only much easier and faster patient recovery. It is also a marked risk reduction for cardiac surgery, and sometimes, like 42-year-old Kharkiv Oleksandr Omelchenko, is generally the only chance to save the patient’s life.
Heart problems, Alexander began ten years ago. During this time he has already had four heart attacks. To save a man’s heart, the doctors put two stents, but they are overgrown and the situation did not change. The last two heart attacks happened just after stenting, the patient says. Can’t put into words the terrible pain in her chest had to endure during heart attacks. But the hardest thing for her has always joined and having a panic attack. I exploded out of bed in the middle of the night and was ready to climb the wall how hurt and scared. This was not life. But how to escape, I didn’t know.
The fact that two years ago when it became clear that the only way for Alexander’s heart surgery, coronary bypass surgery, was to find a hospital willing to operate on him, hard. At first I refused to Kharkov. Said high risk, and need to go to the city surgeons. But in Kiev, where I went to all the famous cardiac centers, sent home, said the man.
When a large weight, heart surgery and more risky, and more complex
The main risk stems from the fact that large patients large area of the wound surface, and this means, a large blood loss, higher risk of bleeding and development of infection. In addition, the object of the transaction is deeper, that is, you have to work in a less familiar environment, increases the time of surgery. The next moment even if everything was perfect, then it is difficult to collect. High risk that due to the large weight, which pulls the sternum to the sides, she can leave. And if that happens, the patient can not be saved. The postoperative period also can not be called simple, because these patients are difficult to Radicati after surgery, says the surgeon Alexander Babiak, head of the Center for cardiac care-being the only clinic in the country where began to operate Oleksandr Omelchenko.
Saved by the fact that now coronary artery bypass surgery can be done minimally invasive
To help Kharkiv was due to the fact that multi-vessel coronary artery bypass surgery in the clinic for more than a year doing minimally invasive through a small incision between the ribs. That is removed the risk that disperse the sternum, and markedly reduced risk of bleeding and infection, as thanks to the mini-access wound surface is much smaller than in the case when there is a common heart surgery.
When we tell people about the benefits of minimally invasive cardiac surgery, we are talking more about the comfort and speedy recovery. But minimally invasive techniques is also a reduction in the risk of operative and postoperative complications, and in some cases, as in Alexander, it is generally the only way to make the patient needed the operation, Alexander says Babiak.
By the way, in some clinics, which appealed to man said can’t take him to surgery yet, and because of the lack of the operating table, able to withstand 160 pounds, and it weighs as much Alexander. The table in our cardiac surgery operating also is only 150 kilograms, but for this operation we moved the table with the required parameters from another operating, to disclose the details of successful intervention in cardiosurgery Center Dobrobut.
