Before and After Your Heart Surgery

Learn what to expect before and after your heart surgery. Meet members of the cardiac team at Island Health, learn what will happen during your operation and in recovery.

[lexconor]

79 year old dad got 5x bypass. Not obese, diabetic or on blood pressure meds. 4 hrs. Surgery. Did awesome

[dawnmcknight]

Thank you so much for this education my surgery is the end of the month

[boblench]

i had a quadruple heart bypass 22years ago perhaps the best decision i ever made ! brilliant surgeon Mr Alan Brian from Bristol thank you & yout team

[HUMBOLDT]

Thank you for all the information prior to receiving my new Aortic Valve. Very helpful.

[paralogregt]

I had the same op as the first gentleman in 2016 done by dr perchinsky and the treatment by him and the staff there was outstanding. I was home 6 days later and back to work six weeks after. We are so lucky to have this excellent heart centre in Victoria.

[momsmushroomsjodyfoster]

I don't want to scare anyone and maybe my experience was different than yours. But I had uncontrolled pain after waking up from a triple bypass open heart surgery. Maybe it's because I also had a collapsed lung and an additional to the size of a cigar coming out of my chest. But I thought they did a sorry-ass job controlling my pain. It was so bad that suicide went through my mind and I have never thought of that in my life. I let them know all about it at my first post-op appointment. So if you have a high tolerance to pain medicine make sure they're aware of that and they treat you adequately

[cvan]

I went 27 years on my first Ross Procedure, and I'm 6 days away from my next one. The biggest issue was getting back to sleep after the heart/lung machine wrecked my bodily rhythms. If you have this problem just get a clock that ticks next to your bedside . Literally saved my life.

[iiencarriere]

I had aortic and mitral valve replacements. Feeling good

[heathergundry]

Yes a dedicated member of the family is very important

[michaelfogarty]

Just had a quad bypass surgery 5 weeks ago getting better every week starting my cardio rehab Monday

[joemusic]

We need a discussion on how to ween off of drugs to control cholesterol by way of diet

[minhhop]

Thanks so much for sharing ! My husband will have the Bypass surgery in 5 days !!!
We do not have that kind of bed at home, no arm to hold or push ! How ca he sit up ?,
Thanks amlot !

[EricaDiebold]

Thank you for the video. I do wish there was more representation of younger heart patients. I had OHS at 24. None of the resources from my hospital included patients of my age. It would just be nice to see

[shoomapadoo]

I am 13 days out of the modified Bentall procedure with the konect bovine tissue valve. Was in great shape when I went in with minimal damage and classified as Stage C: A Symptomatic. I am 60 years old and made the decision to have surgery one year after the diagnosis of severe aorta valve stenosis. Took me that long to get my nerve up. I was working, and I felt great, what the heck? Third opinion I said let's do it because I didn't want the recovery to be ridiculously long and/or my heart to be irreversibly damaged by my own hand because of my cowardness. The first week out of general anesthesia is NO JOKE and it does hurt. I've been home for three days and begin warfarin tomorrow evening for three months. Feeling very good. Surgery is not the problem it is the solution. 02/28/24

[navenkatGMail]

very nice video and thanks for sharing this

[rpdee]

2/16/23 I just went through this with a cabbage operation, the video was very right on, and it answered a lot of questions that went through my mind before and after the surgery. I am now at the Cardio stage and back to regular exercising at the gym, being careful what exercise sI do on my upper body, so I can get back to normal.

[calvinellis]

I’m 54 the Dr. Cam into my room after the Angiogram and said you have 4 blockages and need quadruple bypass my jaw dropped to the floor that’s coming up 4 yrs now don’t feel all that good so going to check the bypasses to see what there doing also done a stress test it was Abnormal.

[calvinellis]

I had quadruple by pass 3yrs ago not feeling good going to check the bypasses to see what’s going on.

[garyjene]

If you have phlegm or mucus problem in the lungs and want to cough, what about having some kind of cup to spit into. I haven't had surgery yet, and had a problem with this and found by having a cup to spit into made it easier to go to sleep without having to get up all the time and go to the washroom in order to spit out.

[nefnm]

BS on the after surgery meds. You need to get with the program on cholesterol, statins and diet. There are too many negative side effects from the "meds" the health care industry expects us to tolerate or ignore. Sugar is the enemy, not cholesterol.