Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and All about it
Many children around the world are born with congenital heart defects that seriously result in some life-threatening medical conditions, such as change in pulse, or heart beating, skin color, and shortness of breath. Still, is performing a surgery an efficient treatment for children with heart diseases? In this article, Healing Consulting offers necessary information about heart diseases in children, pediatric cardiac surgery and its post-operative instructions.
Heart Conditions in Children
There are many heart diseases that affect children, which necessitate performing a surgical procedure. These disease are either congenital or acquired ones, some of them can affect the heart wall and the others affect its chambers, apart from the diseases that affect the arteries of the heart, their veins, or other blood vessels. Heart Conditions in Children also include holes in the heart condition. Moreover, the symptoms of all these diseases in children range from shortness of breath and excessive sweating during breastfeeding or movement to bluish color of the skin, nails, and gums, in addition to irregular heartbeat and swollen the hands and feet.
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Pediatric cardiovascular surgery is a surgical procedure that treats congenital heart defects, both cyanotic and non-cyanotic ones. The surgery is also efficient at treating acquired heart diseases in newborns, children, and adolescents.
It should be noted that some children’s heart defects require immediate surgical intervention after birth, whereas others might be delayed until the child gets older.
pediatric cardiac surgery Process
Pediatric cardiologist surgery requires a great degree of precision and medical care. At the first phase of the operation, the patient child undergoes a set of medical examinations in order to ensure the surgical readiness. The surgery is performed under general anesthesia, after which treating the heart defects is done depending on the use of various methods decided by the pediatric cardiac surgeon based on the child’s pathological condition; either by performing a minimally invasive surgery in which a catheter is inserted through a vein or an artery in the child’s leg, which results in treating the congenital defect, or by performing an open heart surgery based on making an incision in the chest and the use of the heart and lung machine to treat coronary artery anomalies, valve disorders, and heart holes.
Post-Operative Instructions
After congenital cardiac surgery is performed, the child remains in the intensive care unit to monitor the pulse and breathing. It also requires a hospital stay until recovery; then, a child is able to live a normal life, yet the child’s parents have to apply post-operative instructions accurately and give their child prescribed medicines regularly.
In brief, parents shouldn’t be so concerned about their child while performing this surgery as studies have shown that the success rate of heart surgery in children exceeded 90%. It is also worth noting that saving a child’s heart gives life to the whole family, therefore, Healing Consulting medical team has been ready to carry out this humanitarian task by making tremendous efforts to perform congenital cardiac surgery efficiently. We also provide patients with our free consulting service to answer all inquiries in this regard. Therefore, do not hesitate to contact us.
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