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heart surgery valves
heart surgery and valves
Question | Answer |
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disadvantages of mechanical valves | they make noise, they are long term, patient put on an antiquagulation |
post op management | assess for bleeding needs to be less than 200ml per hour or call the doctore and return to surgery, monitor for heart block due to swelling around the site, listen for a click |
Vessels used for a CABG | saphenouse vein(from the leg), internal mammary artery (from the chest wall), radial artery (from the arm) |
cardiopulmonary bypass surgery | moves O2 around the body druing open heart surgery, core body temp is lowered to 28C to 32C |
Post-op of bypass management | keep BP lower, check chest drain output if greater that 200ml in 2 hours call doc., wean off of vent with in 8hrs prost op, prevent hypothermia with rewarming |