Patient Grateful for Renowned Bypass Surgery at Baptist Health’s Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute скачать в хорошем качестве

Patient Grateful for Renowned Bypass Surgery at Baptist Health’s Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute

Having survived a heart attack nearly six years ago, Cliff Watkin, 62, and his wife were living a comfortable retirement in Punta Gorda, Florida, about 25 miles north of Fort Myers. Then came his appointment at his cardiologist’s office that included a “battery of tests.” One of those tests was a “cardiac cath” procedure to look for narrowed or blocked coronary arteries. “I failed them all,” concedes Mr. Watkin, who has been on medication for high blood pressure for years and suffers from COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) an inflammatory lung disease. He failed those tests just days before he and his wife would take a fateful, 2.5-hour road trip from Punta Gorda to South Florida, where Mr. Watkin would undergo a procedure pioneered by Joseph McGinn Jr., M.D., the chief of cardiac surgery at Baptist Health’s Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute — a minimally invasive approach to bypass surgery that is known internationally as the “McGinn Technique.” Want to see more? Baptist Health South Florida’s Resource Blog https://baptisthealth.net/news Like us on Facebook   / baptisthealthsf   Follow Baptist Health on Twitter   / baptisthealthsf   Follow Baptist Health on Instagram   / baptisthealthsf   [Transcript] Joseph McGinn: A lot of people don't realize what we're doing. And the reality is if they did know what we were doing, I don't think they would go for the traditional zipper incision. There really is no reason to have that done. If you look at the rest of all of the specialties in medicine, everybody's going to a smaller, minimally invasive platform. It has evolved to the point where most every patient is a good candidate for MICS CABG. Today, we have a gentleman who needs a single bypass to the LAD. So we're going to put the internal mammary artery, which is an artery inside the chest wall, connect it up to an artery on his heart that has a serious blockage in it. We're making a small incision on the left side of the chest, approximately two to three inches in length, and we're going in between the ribs. We will not be breaking any bones, we will not be cutting any muscles. So the healing process is much shorter and much easier on the patient. Patients typically, when they leave the hospital, can go back to work within a week of discharge and they have typically no pain medicine requirement. They occasionally may take Tylenol, but that's about it. So the pain is very little and the patients do get home and they get back to work pretty quickly. You have less blood transfusions because less blood loss because of the small size of the incision, there's almost no infections. I haven't seen a single infection. I have the world's largest series of minimally evasive coronary bypass cases. I haven't seen a single infection yet.