for how long does open heart surgery last?

Question

Please tell me how long it takes for to recover from open heart surgery?

Answer 1

It depends: It depends on what operation you are talking about, taking certain medications, and controlling conditions like hypertension and diabetes. Talk to your doctor if the operation lasting as long as possible is very important to you. This consideration can inform some choices for particular operations, such as heart valve surgery.

Answer 2

Depends: It depends on where and exactly what surgery is done. For instance a bypass is less expensive than a valve replacement. Both together would be even more expensive. But the total cost would be about $60, 000 to $160, 000.

Answer 3

Variable: What needs to be done? Where. Who? The costs are for: diagnosis: consultation, echo, cath, blood work therapy: operation valves, etc. Anesthesia & operating room and staff perfusion and pump and disposables surgeon and staff 2-4 so all told in can be expensive hospital and ICU and recovery.

Answer 4

Depends: It depends on the procedure being performed. Ask your doctor what procedure is being performed and get an estimate from his office on your medical coverage and your our of pocket payment.

Answer 5

CABG 1-2 % mortality: For coronary artery bypass surgery generally in the 1-2% mortality range; for valve replacement 4-5%, higher in re-do surgery.

Answer 6

Not so bad: The national averages for CABG operations are roughly a 2-3-% mortality rate and 5% morbidity rate for stroke, bleeding, infection, etc. Some patients have higher rates if they are sicker overall.

Answer 7

Complications heart: Potential complications of heart surgery include but are not limited to bleeding, infection both of the surgical site and elsewhere, pulmonary embolism, stroke, and heart rhythm disturbances. Death is also a potential complication but fortunately is not common.

Answer 8

Just a few: Common would consist of atrial fibrillation, need for oxygen, and swollen legs.

Answer 9

Nothing after midnit: There are really no dietary restrictions before heart surgery really. After you will have to follow a low salt low fat diet with limited fluid intake.

Answer 10

Usually does not: A seroma is a collection of clear fluid that can develop after surgery but is most commonly seen following breast surgery and some types of plastic surgery. Serum leaks into tissue causing swelling. It is different from a hematoma which is blood and contains red blood cells. I can't recall seeing this as a significant complication of open heart surgery except when fluid accumulates in the legs.

Answer 11

Where?: Any incision may have some bleeding- -and a hematoma may develop. This can become a seroma over time as the blood is resorbed. Or some lymphatic s are disrupted and fluid escapes into tissue. Tissue juices and serum can remain in a wound as well. Most are temporary. All are resolvable . See the surgeon.

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