| St. Mary Medical Center was the first facility to bring open heart
surgery to Bucks County, and introduced its highly successful program in
January 1997.
St. Mary currently performs the greatest number of open-heart surgeries
in the region. Nearly 400 open heart procedures are done annually, with
upwards to 80 percent of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedures
done (off pump) without the use of the heart-lung machine.
Coronary artery bypass surgery is very effective in restoring
circulation to heart tissue endangered by impeded blood flow. Sometimes it
is the only effective method to restore blood flow to a severly diseased
heart. Balloon angioplasty is often used in
emergency situations, especially when a person is experiencing a heart
attack, as a lifesaving procedure to immediately restore blood flow to the
heart.
Mitral and aortic valve replacement and repair of aortic dissection are
among the specialty of open-heart surgeries provided at St. Mary.
Our Cardiac Care and Telemetry Units provides skilled nursing care
for patients recovering from surgeries and cardiac-related
medical conditions. |