How does it keep the beat?
When I was younger and still a bit dense, I used to ask myself how do patients of Heart Surgery survive once they opened his heart, does he stop breathing? If so then he would surely die for lack of oxygen being pumped to his body.
Now that I am older, I already found the answer. So if you also want to know… read on. An open-heart surgery is an operation in which the heart-lung machine is used to support the patient’s circulation while the surgeon opens the chest and makes changes to the heart or the arteries on the surface of the heart. The procedure usually takes an average of about five hours.
But even if you have successfully passed the operation, the risk is still too high. The recovery period is much difficult for patients as well as for the doctors. Patients undergoing open-heart surgery can expect a hospital stay of at least three to four days after the surgery. They will not be allowed to smoke for two weeks before the procedure, or to eat or drink for eight hours earlier. They will usually be admitted on the morning of the procedure. After that, the patient will be very carefully checked, first in the cardiac intensive care unit and then on the general floor. Most open-heart surgeries will not need to be repeated.
