Neurological disorder and Neuroimmunology

Cardiac surgery

Track 6: Cardiac surgery

Cardiac surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of diseases affecting organs inside the thorax generally treatment of conditions of the heart and lungs by the cardiac surgeons. Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is done to restore normal blood flow to heart muscle. Cardiac cognitive impairment, Cardiac valve disease, Atrial sepal defect repair, Ventricular sepal defect repair are done for cardiac surgery. Pediatric heart surgeons treat complex congenital heart defects in newborns, children, and adolescents. During open heart surgery the heart-lung bypass machine takes over the function of the heart and lungs to provide oxygenated blood to the body. Post-surgical procedure helps the patients to heal the surgical wound and also from infections.