Introduction
A heart transplant is surgery to replace your failing heart with a donor heart. Common reasons for heart failure include coronary artery disease, heart defects you are born with (congenital defects), heart valve problems, or heart infections (myocarditis). Your may need this surgery if no other treatments have worked.
Heart transplant is a major surgery. You will work with a team of health care providers (transplant team) to help you prepare for the procedure and to help you recover.
Tell a health care provider about:
Any allergies you have.
All medicines you are taking, including vitamins, herbs, eye drops, creams, and over-the-counter medicines.
Any problems you or family members have had with anesthetic medicines.
Any blood
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A long, thin tube (catheter) will be inserted into a large blood vessel in your neck or groin. You will get fluids through this tube.
You will be given medicines to prevent infection and to prevent rejection of the donor heart.
A catheter will be inserted into your bladder to drain urine during and after surgery.
A tube may be placed through your nose and into your stomach (nasogastric tube) to drain stomach fluids.
The surgeon will make a cut (incision) down the center of your chest.
The breastbone will be cut to expose the heart.
Blood vessels around your heart will be cut. Tubes will be inserted to take the returning blood to a heart-lung bypass machine. This machine will take over for your heart and lungs during surgery. It will help pump blood and oxygen through your body.
Your damaged or diseased heart will be removed.
The new heart will be placed and attached to the blood vessels that were cut.
The heart-lung bypass machine will be removed once your new heart is working well.
Your breastbone will be repaired.
Drainage tubes may be placed in the chest.
The chest incision will be closed with stitches (sutures) or staples.
A bandage (dressing) will be placed over the
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Bone marrow is the flexible tissue in the interior of bones. Hematopoiesis is when the red blood cells are formed by cores of bone marrow in the ends of lengthy bones. Bone marrow comprises 4% of the total of a person’s body mass. Bone marrow transplants treat severe diseases of the bone marrow, including specific forms of cancer. And so many people don’t receive the proper transplant they need. Paying people for their bone marrow would help to solve that situation but it’s harmful for the patience, unethical, and could potentially be risky for donors.
The graft is placed at the site of the missing breast tissue. Blood vessels are reattached and the surgeon shapes the graft to look like a natural breast.
They have now invented a “beating heart transplant.” It consists of a mechanical system to keep the heart beating, while it is being transferred to the candidate. Statistics have proven that these candidates have a higher recovery rate, because of the “beating heart.” Throughout reading above, it is a given that organ donation is vital to saving lives, but it is not deemed proper to be made mandatory.
...f the clamps on the tubing to allow the IV solution to run freely. Slowly, decrease the flow of the solution to the appropriate rate as ordered by the physician. Using a small gauze pad, wipe away any excess blood or fluid on the surface of the skin. Then, using the pre-torn pieces of tape, secure the catheter hub and the IV tubing to the patient’s skin. Take extra caution not to kink the tubing. Once everything is secured, recheck the IV solution’s flow and then attend to the rest of your patients needs.
Organ transplantation is the process of surgically transferring a patient with end-stage organ failure to a healthy, compliant organ. This can be done when a patient’s organ has ceased working, or when the organ does not meet its opportune function. In the article Organ Transplantation: The Process, the author claims that end-stage organ failure can be the product of cardiomyopathy, cirrhosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coronary heart disease, cystic fibrosis, hepatitis, diabetes, hypertension, idiopathic pulmonary disease, and short gut syndrome.. Multiple organs can be transplanted at one time. In order for a patient to get a transplant, the patient as well as the donor, have to go through a series of tests.
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Organ donation is the surgical removal of organs or a tissue of one person to be transplanted to another person for the purpose of replacing a failed organ damaged by disease or injury. Organs and tissues that can be transplanted are liver, kidneys, pancreas, heart, lungs, intestines, cornea, middle ear, skin, bone, bone marrow, heart valves, and connective tissues. Everyone regardless of age can consider themselves as potential donors. After one dies, he is evaluated if he is suited for organ donation based on their medical history and their age as determined by the Organ Procurement Agency (Cleveland Clinic).
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However, if the heart is perfused with the proper media, it can remain viable for up to 24 hours. The technique of perfusion is based on intrinsically simple principles. What occurs is a physician carefully excises the heart from the donor. He then accurately trims the vessels of the heart so they can be easily attached to the perfusion apparatus.