Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Overview | Surgery Tours India
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Overview
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery procedure
There are several different types of congenital heart defects. Only one surgery may not be enough to repair the congenital heart defect, sometimes a series of procedures are required.
Mainly there are three different techniques for treating congenital heart defects in the children are described below:-
Open-heart surgery is performed under general anesthesia. In open-heart surgery, the surgeon uses a heart-lung bypass machine. In this type of procedure, an incision is made through the breastbone. Tubes are used to re-route the blood. Heart-lung bypass machine is a special pump that re-routes the blood. This machine adds oxygen and maintains the flow of blood to the rest of the body. This machine also allows the heart to be stopped for a certain period of time. By stopping the heart, the surgeon repairs the heart muscle, blood vessels outside the heart or the heart valves. After the repair is done, the heart is restarted again, and the machine is removed. The incision is then closed.
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