Principles of Cardiac Surgery

Question 1

Types of cardiac surgery

Answer 1

congenital or aquired
open or closed

Question 2

cardio-pulmonary bypass

Answer 2

uses special heart pump to keep patient alive while performing open heart surgery

Question 3

types of approaches for cardiac surgery

Answer 3

median sternotomy
minimally invasive
robotic
wire-based valve implantation

Question 4

types of valve repair/replacement

Answer 4

mitral, tricuspid, aortic
tissue, mechanical, freestyle aortic root, sutureless, rapid deployment valves

Question 5

conorary artery bypass graft

Answer 5

when there is a blockage in conorary artery and need to use another artery from elsewhere to bypass the blockage