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Cardioversion is a medical procedure by which an abnormally fast heart rate (tachycardia) or other cardiac arrhythmia is converted to a normal rhythm using electricity or drugs. Synchronized electrical cardioversion uses a therapeutic dose of electric current to the heart at a specific moment in the cardiac cycle , restoring the activity of the ...
Heart function often recovers very quickly after pericardiectomy is performed, [8] although the surgery itself can cause reduced cardiac output in the short term. [4] After surgery, many patients will have a chest drain to remove pericardial fluid. [2] Hospital recovery takes several days, with surgical suture removed after a week. [2]
Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons.It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to correct congenital heart disease; or to treat valvular heart disease from various causes, including endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, [1] and ...
Myocardial stunning or transient post-ischemic myocardial dysfunction is a state of mechanical cardiac dysfunction that can occur in a portion of myocardium without necrosis after a brief interruption in perfusion, despite the timely restoration of normal coronary blood flow.
The perioperative period is the period of a patient's surgical procedure. [1] It commonly includes ward admission, anesthesia, surgery, and recovery.Perioperative may refer to the three phases of surgery: preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative, though it is a term most often used for the first and third of these only - a term which is often specifically utilized to imply 'around' the ...
Before the LITA is divided in its more distal part, the anticoagulant heparin is administered to the patient via a peripheral line, to prevent clots. [21] Catheterization and establishment of cardiopulmonary bypass. After harvesting, the pericardium—the sac that surrounds the heart—is opened and stay sutures are placed to keep it open.
Immediately following coronary artery or neurosurgical vascular bypass surgery, patients recover in an intensive care unit or coronary care unit for one to two days. Provided that recovery is normal and without complications, they can move to a less intensively monitored unit such as a step-down unit or a ward bed. Depending on the extent of ...
Before-and-after cross sections of the artery show the results of the stent placement. Arterial Stenting 3D Medical Animation. Cardiac stenting is achieved by PCI procedures in two distinct medical situations, when a patient has clearly suffered a heart attack and therefore PCI/stenting is being used in an emergency setting, termed 'primary PCI'.