Robot-Assisted Heart Valve Surgery
Why Is a Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery Done?
What Are the Risks Associated with the Heart Surgery?
How to Prepare for a Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery?
What to Expect During the Surgery?
What to Expect after a Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery?
Dr Arun Can Expertly Perform Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
Minimally invasive heart surgery is an increasingly popular procedure for treating heart conditions. It is a less invasive alternative to traditional open-heart surgery. It is a surgical procedure that involves making small incisions in the chest wall to access the heart, minimal pain, and quicker recovery times than traditional open-heart surgery. With the help of advanced tools and techniques, the procedure causes fewer traumas to the body, and involves reduced bleeding, pain and recovery time.
Robot-Assisted Heart Valve Surgery
Robot-assisted heart valve surgery is one type of minimally invasive heart surgery that uses robot technology to perform precise, detailed and intricate instructions, and allows for an even smaller incision and greater precision when repairing a heart valve.
Why Is a Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery Done?
The main goal of this heart surgery is to repair or replace a damaged heart valve or to treat coronary artery disease without the use of a heart-lung bypass machine. It offers many advantages over traditional open-heart surgery, including fewer incisions, less pain, shorter hospital stays, and shorter recovery times. Additionally, the surgery is often successful in correcting cardiac defects and improving the patient’s quality of life.
What Are the Risks Associated with the Heart Surgery?
As with any surgery, there are risks associated with minimally invasive heart surgery too. These include bleeding, infection, damage to surrounding organs, blood clots, and a reaction to anesthesia.
How to Prepare for a Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery?
To prepare for this heart surgery, it is important to follow your surgeon’s pre-operative instructions carefully. This includes abstaining from eating, drinking and smoking for a period beforehand; and switching to a heart-healthy diet. Patients should also talk to the surgeon about any medications they are taking. They should also get plenty of rest and follow any other instructions their doctor provides. Patients may also be asked to stop eating and drinking several hours prior to surgery.
What to Expect During the Surgery?
During the surgery, the area of your heart exposes where the surgeon is performing the surgery. He will use specialized instruments to fix the problem. Doctor may connect you to a heart-lung bypass machine during the procedure to maintain blood flow throughout your body. He will sedate you to not feel any pain, and monitor heart rate & breathing. The doctor will then make small incisions in the chest wall to access the heart.
What to Expect after a Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery?
Once the surgery is complete, doctors will take you to the post-operative recovery area. You may have some pain and discomfort. In that case, doctor will give you pain medications to help manage this. After the procedure completes, doctors will monitor you in the recovery room to make sure the recovery is going smoothly. Once you feel better, doctors will move you to a ward to rest & recover. The recovery process varies from person to person but can include a stay in the hospital of up to a few days, some pain and discomfort and home care instructions. Once doctors discharge you from the hospital, you would need to take precautions to avoid infection and help the body heal. Follow-up appointments with the doctor are important and you should report any symptoms or concerns.
Dr Arun Can Expertly Perform Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
This surgery can provide a viable alternative to open-heart surgery. Doctors perform it to address a variety of issues with the heart, such as blocked arteries, damaged heart valves, or repair of a heart defect. Usually, most surgeons recommend it when open-heart surgery poses too much of a risk to the patient or when they can address the problem using minimally invasive techniques. For patients interested in minimally invasive heart surgery, it is important to talk to Dr Arun about the procedure and its associated risks to determine if it is right for them.
