Open heart process
Open Heart Surgery can be defined as any type of operation in which the chest is opened, the operation of the heart muscles, its valves and arteries. According to experts, Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting-CABG is the most open heart surgery performed for adults. This process connects the artery or vein with the closed coronary artery, so the artery delivered to the coronary artery can bypass the closed artery and deliver the new blood to the heart. The open heart process is called the traditional heart operation, and many of this work A small incision is made in the chest these days.
Causes of open heart surgery
One of the reasons for open heart surgery, including CABG, is the presence of coronary heart disease (CHD). These diseases occur when blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart harden and harden, or known as atherosclerosis, and this disease occurs when fatty substances accumulate On the wall of the arteries, and thus cause them to narrow, making it difficult for the blood to cross these arteries, and when this occurs the heart attack Heart Attack, and the following are some of the other reasons that require open heart surgery:
- Repair, or switch heart valves allowing blood to move across the heart.
- Repair damaged or abnormal parts of the heart.
- Put medical devices to help the heart to organize its strikes.
- Heart transplantation to replace damaged heart.
Mechanism of operation
The CABG open heart operation takes approximately four to six hours, and the procedure is as follows:
- The patient is generally anesthetized to ensure that the patient remains asleep during the operation, so as not to feel pain.
- The surgeon makes an eight to 10 inch incision in the chest.
- The surgeon opens all the chest bones to reveal the heart.
- Once the heart is shown until the patient is delivered to the Heart-Lung Bypass Machine, this machine moves the blood from the heart so that the surgeon can perform the operation, and there are newer operations that do not require the use of this machine.
- The surgeon uses a healthy vein or a healthy vein to work a new path away from the closed artery.
- The surgeon closes the chest bones with a wire, leaves the wire inside the body, and sews the main wound.
A sterile plate is sometimes used for patients whose lives are at risk as adults or patients who have undergone multiple heart operations. Here, the chest bone is reached after the operation using a small plate of titanium.