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=Cardiac (Heart) Surgery =

What good is a heart surgery?

Cardiac surgery is a serious type of surgery that corrects problems in the heart. Heart surgery is "done to treat complications of ischemic heart disease, correct congenital heart disease, or treat valvular heart disease from various cause including endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease and atherosclerosis. it also includes heart transplantation" (Wikipedia).

This type of surgery is also to "repair abnormal or damaged structures in the heart,

replace a damaged heart with a healthy heart from a donor, and or to implant medical devices that help control the heartbeat or support heart function and blood flow" (Cardiac).

There are many kinds of heart surgeries like for example there are "open-heart surgery, modern beating-heart surgery, minimally invasive surgery, and pediatric cardiovascular surgery. The first surgery on the heart itself was performed by [|Norwegian surgeon Axel Coppelen] on the 4th of September 1895" (Wikipedia).

When someone is in need of heart surgery there are many risks during the surgery and after the surgery. For example "a major concern with cardiac surgery is the incidence of neurological damage. Stroke occurs in 2-3% of all people, and higher in patients at risk for stroke" (Wikipedia).

Heart Surgery is an innovation because with out a heart we could not live; is the most important organ in your body that pumps blood all around the body.

Now with this heart idea of heart surgery we have a second chance of living. People with heart problems can find a new heart and be happy again like a new person. This was a great innovation because the world would be so different with out it; it's hard to imagine life without it.

In the past surgeons couldn't do that kind of surgery on people because they were more at risk of dying. Nowadays surgeons can do this type of surgery because surgeons have more equipment and pain medications and are less at risk. Heart surgery is a way to correct problems with the heart if other treatments haven't worked or can't be used.

Shows like "House" and "Grey's Anatomy" shows heart surgery done on patients.

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