Friend is having the new robot assisted heart valve surgery?
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My boyfriend is having the new robotic assisted heart valve surgery soon he is in his early 30′s with regurigiatation (leaky heart valve) They were going to delay the surgery until the first of next year with the help of constant weekly check ups and medication but he is having chest pain not relieved by the medication that they are giving him now they have to move up his surgery for around the Thanksgiving time. The surgery is assisted with the help of a robot and they will cut open a small part of his ribs in his side vs the invasive mid sternum cut and they will put in a mechanical valve. He wont have the small cuts in his chest like other robotic heart surgeries. But he is very nervous about the whole surgery thing. But I told him that the the less invasive surgery hes having is less risky than normal surgery for I am positive on the high success rate of these surgeries. Has anybody had a valve replacement with the new robot assisted surgery and what are statitics of the robot surgery verses the old fashioned regular surgery?
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My boyfriend is having the new robotic assisted heart valve surgery soon he is in his early 30′s with regurigiatation (leaky heart valve) They were going to delay the surgery until the first of next year with the help of constant weekly check ups and medication but he is having chest pain not relieved by the medication that they are giving him now they have to move up his surgery for around the Thanksgiving time. The surgery is assisted with the help of a robot and they will cut open a small part of his ribs in his side vs the invasive mid sternum cut and they will put in a mechanical valve. He wont have the small cuts in his chest like other robotic heart surgeries. But he is very nervous about the whole surgery thing. But I told him that the the less invasive surgery hes having is less risky than normal surgery for I am positive on the high success rate of these surgeries. Has anybody had a valve replacement with the new robot assisted surgery and what are statitics of the robot surgery verses the old fashioned regular surgery?
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No personal experience with this, but here is what I’ve heard:
It takes the surgeons a little while to get used to using the robot. It allows them to access areas that their hands are too big to get into without cracking open the chest. Apparently though, once they get used to it, they can do delicate surgery more easily than they can do it open. Of course, they are all trained to do the surgery open, so if there is a problem, they can always switch to that technique.
Any cardiac surgery is risky, but it sounds like it will be more risky for him NOT to do the surgery. It looks like his physicians are on top of what’s going on with him, so he should be just fine.
Best of luck to both of you!
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It all boils down to the expertise of the surgeon directing the robot.
It would behoove your boyfriend to find the most experienced surgeon available.
To give you an example:
I’ve got a friend who is a certified surgical assistant and works on a cardiothoracic team. She and other OR workers have gone to Human Resources at her hospital (a private hospital) to file a complaint against one of the surgeons she works with. She told me he regularly kills patients due to his ineptness. The hospital is investigating; he may be kicked off the staff and reported to the state’s medical board for revocation of his medical license.
The moral of he story? Find a teaching hospital and insist an attending surgeon does the operation!