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Why Are Heart Surgery Important
The heart is one of two most critically important organs in the human body. Also many Americans have heart conditions that require heart surgery because they have a serious heart condition. I think that bypass heart surgery and heart transplant and are the top two most important surgeries that will help save people whose lives are affected by a serious heart condition.
You are in the middle of the forest and all of the sudden you have a sharp pain in the left part of your chest. You start dry heaving and throw up. You collapse while one of your friends is on the phone with an emergency responder. Life Support comes with a helicopter to rush you to the hospital and the doctors start to perform tests on you to see what is the matter. The doctor …show more content…
Before the surgery, he will perform an EKG (electrocardiogram) to check your heart function. During that a nurse will give you an IV (intravenous line) and anesthesia to make sure you are asleep and you aren’t in a ton of pain. A respirator will be put in your mouth down into the windpipe to help you breathe. Another tube will be put into your nose, down into your stomach to help prevent fluids and air to develop over time in your stomach. A catheter will be placed into your bladder to collect urine, while the patient is under. When that is over they put a blood thinner in the IV to prevent blood clots.
After the prep has been done, they will run the patient to the emergency room to start the surgery. The nurses will hook the patient to a heart-lung machine to help the doctor operate without your heart beating. The heart-lung machine replaces the role of the heart and pumps blood, that is rich with oxygen, into the Aorta so that the blood is easily distributed throughout the body. The heart will be stopped and kept cool if the heart-lung machine is used. If the heart-lung machine isn’t used in the bypass surgery, then the surgeon will keep the heart pumping. This surgery is called off-pump bypass
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