Cirugía cardíaca

Familiarizarse con lo que usted puede llegar a experimentar el día de su cirugía de corazón.

Aprender sobre la cirugía mínimamente invasiva y sus beneficios potenciales.

This American Heart Association video features helpful tips from others who have successfully recovered from heart surgery, including how to plan and prepare for your surgery.

Doctors do successful heart surgery every day. But it's normal to be concerned if you're having operation. Knowing what to expect should help ease your worries. © AHA

This checklist will help you answer questions you may be facing before major surgery such as: How do I avoid financial surprises? Is there anything I can do to help speed up my recovery? How can I make my recovery as pain free as possible? What don't I know? © AHA

Coronary artery bypass surgery creates a path for blood to flow around a blockage and helps prevent a heart attack.

Bypass surgery creates a new pathway around the blocked part of your artery. This allows blood to flow again.

The day of your bypass or valve surgery, a patient educator or a nurse may talk with you and your loved ones. He or she can tell you what to expect. You'll most likely feel a little nervous before surgery.

Coronary artery bypass surgery is a type of heart surgery. The surgery is done to bypass a blocked area in a coronary artery.

Mirar estas sugerencias para ayudar a su ser querido mientras él o ella se prepara y se recupera de la cirugía de corazón.

Ver lo que usted puede esperar durante su recuperación hospitalaria.

Aprender estrategias para clasificar y describir el nivel de su dolor a los miembros de su equipo cardíaco y así ellos poder tratarlo.

Aprender como los ejercicios de respiración profunda y controlada pueden ayudar a fortalecer sus pulmones después de la cirugía.

Aprender como aumentando gradualmente su nivel de actividad puede ayudarle en su recuperación.

Cuando haya finalizado su cirugía, es posible que le sorprenda cuán rápido lo levantaremos de la cama y lo pondremos en movimiento. ¿Por qué lo hacemos? Porque esto ayuda a agilizar su recuperación. Tomemos un momento para conocer los beneficios.

Entender el rango de las emociones comúnmente experimentadas después de la cirugía de corazón.

Aprender las instrucciones comunes incluidas en el plan de alta hospitalaria.

Usted tuvo una cirugía de corazón y es hora de abandonar el hospital. Veamos cómo es el proceso y qué es lo que puede esperar.

In a hospital, ICU stands for Intensive Care Unit. CCU stands for Coronary Care Unit. These are places with special equipment and highly trained nurses and doctors. This is where patients go after open-heart surgery or a heart attack. You're watched around the clock. The care you get here will help you recover safely and quickly. You may stay for several days, depending on the type of heart surgery and the time you need to recover. Then you may go to a regular hospital room. © AHA

How long you stay in the hospital after open-heart surgery depends on what type of surgery you had and your needs. It may be as short as 3 to 4 days. If you have complications, you may stay in the hospital several weeks or longer.

Your incision may be open to the air by the time you go home. But if you need to change your dressing, follow these steps.

After surgery, you'll be moved to a recovery area where you can be closely watched. From there, you may go to a special care unit or a regular room. The hospital stay after minimally invasive heart surgery varies, but is often 5 to 7 days.

Aprender cómo cuidar y monitorear sus incisiones quirúrgicas de una manera segura.

Mirar este video para aprender sobre los medicamentos comunes que usted puede tomar después de una cirugía de corazón, y estrategias para tomarlos como se los prescribieron.

Conocer los signos y síntomas que requieren una llamada a su equipo médico, y cuando llamar al 911.

Aprender como espera usted sentirse de la tercera a la sexta semana después de la cirugía de corazón, y como la rehabilitación puede ayudarle.

Aprender como usted y sus seres queridos pueden hacer frente a las emociones comúnmente experimentadas después de la cirugía de corazón.

Aprender que cambios en el estilo de vida de un corazón saludable usted haría, para reducir los problemas de salud en el futuro.

This American Heart Association video features helpful tips from others who have successfully recovered from heart surgery, including how to maximize your recovery at home.

Los pacientes deben participar de manera activa en su recuperación, para aprovechar el máximo la recuperación y reducir a un mínimo la posibilidad de un reingreso al hospital. Este programa va a explicar que es esperado durante la fase inicial de la recuperación, tanto como complicaciones comunes, cómo prevenirlas y qué hacer si se presentan.

La recuperación de un bypass de las arterias coronarias puede ser un proceso largo. Entiende lo que puedes esperar de éste proceso y por qué la recuperación cardiaca debe ser una herramienta principal para tu camino hacia la recuperación.

This survival skills checklist is designed to help you through the days between discharge from the hospital and your follow up visit with your doctor. © AHA

Immediately after your surgery, you'll be taken to an intensive care unit (ICU) or recovery room. A nurse will be with you at all times, and special equipment will be used to monitor your progress. © AHA

Kirk se somete a una cirugía de bypass después de enterarse que tiene varios bloqueos en sus arterias coronarias.

En este video aprenderás cómo se preparó Curtis para su vida antes y después de un trasplante de corazón.

You will need at least 2 to 3 weeks of healing before you can go back to your normal routine. While you are healing, follow your doctor's advice. Call your doctor if you have questions.

During the first few weeks after heart surgery, you'll be regaining your energy and strength. Your doctor will let you know what you can and can't do as you get better. Take things slowly and rest when you get tired.

"Your healthcare provider performed coronary artery bypass graft surgery (also called CABG, pronounced "cabbage"). This surgery created new pathways around blocked parts of your heart's blood vessels, allowing blood to reach your heart muscle. Your healthcare provider used a healthy blood vessel from another part of your body (a graft) to restore blood flow."

After coronary artery bypass surgery you will be taking several medicines to help your heart work efficiently and to treat related conditions.

After coronary artery bypass surgery, exercise is an important way to reduce your risk of future heart problems. Start slow, and build up your activity slowly.

You may have many questions in the days following coronary artery bypass surgery. Find out when you can shower and why you need to weigh yourself daily.

After coronary artery bypass surgery, it's important to care for your incision as it heals.

As you heal after coronary bypass surgery, it's important to be active but protect your upper body. What activities are safe?

After bypass surgery, it's important to get back into the swing, but take it slow.

After coronary artery bypass surgery, it's important to balance rest with activity.

After coronary bypass surgery, it's important to take time to relax.

Know what symptoms require a call to the doctor after coronary bypass surgery.

After coronary bypass surgery, it's important to control the risk factors that led to heart disease to prevent future heart attacks and the need for additional surgery.

After coronary bypass surgery, walking is a safe way to get back into activity.

After coronary artery bypass surgery, you may be prescribed pain medications to help ease incision and breastbone pain.

A cardiac rehab program is a stepped approach to help you recover after bypass surgery.

Having coronary bypass surgery can trigger depression, anger, and other feelings.

After coronary bypass surgery, it's important to take an active role in your recovery.

Your healthcare provider performed minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery. This surgery created a new pathway around a blocked part of your heart's blood vessels, allowing blood to reach your heart muscle. An alternative to traditional open-heart surgery, this procedure allowed your healthcare provider to operate through a few small incisions, instead of cutting through your breastbone. Here's what you need to know about home care.

After your artery bypass surgery, expect to have regular follow-up visits with your healthcare team.

After coronary bypass surgery, it's important to prevent swelling in your legs.

As your breastbone heals after coronary bypass surgery, it is important to move carefully.

Learn how to get up and out of bed that protects your incision and breastbone.

Nearly 25% of heart valve patients feel depressed after surgery, even when it goes well. This is called cardiac depression. Knowing what you may experience emotionally after surgery can help you prepare for it—and identify it—if depression does happen.

Con este video aprenderás lo que sucede durante un Reemplazo o Reparación de Válvula Cardíaca.

Con este video aprenderás lo que sucede durante un reemplazo o reparación mínimamente invasivos de válvulas cardíacas.

Con este video aprenderás cuáles opciones de tratamiento tienes para la coartación de la aorta.

Con este video aprenderás lo que sucede en la reparación del defecto septal auricular.

Esta cirugía es una manera de tratar las zonas bloqueadas en las arterias del corazón. Vea cómo se hace esta cirugía y qué puede esperar que suceda antes y después.

Coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) is a procedure in which health care professionals take blood vessels from another part of the body to create new places for oxygen-rich blood to flow around, or "bypass," blocked or narrowed coronary arteries to the heart muscle. © AHA

Esta cirugía, también llamada cirugía de bypass o CABG por sus siglas en inglés, se realiza para tratar una arteria coronaria bloqueada. Esta es una de las arterias que provee sangre al tejido de su corazón. Con un bypass, el flujo de sangre se desvía alrededor del bloqueo, de modo que pueda nutrir dicho tejido.

La cirugía de válvulas cardíacas se realiza para reemplazar o reparar las válvulas cardíacas que no están funcionando correctamente. © AHA

Con esta operación se repara un orificio llamado comunicación interauricular o "CIA". Este se encuentra en la pared que separa las dos cavidades superiores del corazón. Estas cavidades se denominan "aurículas". La sangre sin oxígeno se mezcla con la sangre oxigenada a través de ese orificio. Como resultado, se bombea menos oxígeno al cuerpo. Por lo general, una CIA se cierra en la primera infancia para evitar problemas de salud más adelante.

Este es un procedimiento que sirve para corregir una aorta estrecha. La aorta es el vaso principal que transporta la sangre desde el corazón hacia el cuerpo. En muchos casos, esta cirugía se realiza poco después del nacimiento de un bebé.

Con este procedimiento se repara un orificio llamado comunicación interauricular o "CIA". Este se encuentra en la pared que separa las dos cavidades superiores del corazón. Estas cavidades se denominan "aurículas". La sangre sin oxígeno se mezcla con la sangre oxigenada a través de ese orificio. Como resultado, se bombea menos oxígeno al cuerpo. Por lo general, se repara una CIA en la primera infancia para evitar problemas de salud más adelante.

SCAD is an emergency condition. It occurs when a tear develops in the wall of one of the arteries that supplies blood to the heart muscle.

During heart valve surgery, one or more valves are repaired or replaced. Repair means that the valve is mended to help it work better. Replacement means your diseased valve is removed and a new valve is inserted in its place.

Problems such as high blood pressure can weaken an area of the aorta over time. This can cause a tear in the lining of that area.