{"id":143,"date":"2007-08-26T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T19:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/26\/recovering-from-aortic-valve-surgery\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:55:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:55:19","slug":"recovering-from-aortic-valve-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/26\/recovering-from-aortic-valve-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is It Like Recovering From Aortic Valve Surgery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most common questions I receive about heart valve surgery focuses on the &#8220;recovery&#8221;. As you can read in my story, I had a special type of aortic valve surgery known as the Ross Procedure.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I can provide some personal insight in answering questions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;What is it like recovering from aortic valve surgery?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;When did you return to work?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Is the recovery from aortic valve surgery painful?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can probably tell, the list of questions regarding the recovery from open heart surgery could go on and on and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/adam-riding-bike-pick.jpeg\" width=\"164\" height=\"237\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, this is one of the biggest problems with cardiac surgery today.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is simply not enough education about the recovery from procedures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/aortic-valve-replacement-surgery.php\">including aortic valve replacement<\/a> and mitral valve repair. That said, I believe nurses and doctors need to be more pro-active in terms of managing the patient&#8217;s expectations through each step of the recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I feel this way?<\/p>\n<p>Well. During my recovery I experienced a number of lows, challenges and pitfalls that I believe could have been avoided IF there was more &#8220;hands-on&#8221; management of my recovery from aortic valve surgery. There are so many elements of the recovery that need to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>So you know, that is that is the key reason why I wrote my book, <em>The Patient&#8217;s Guide To Heart Valve Surgery<\/em>. Again, in my opinion, recovering from heart valve surgery should be about patient expectation, control and management. Instead, the patient is often left to fend for himself or herself throughout the recovery process.<\/p>\n<p>How do I know this?<\/p>\n<p>I interviewed 78 former heart valve surgery patients and their caregivers during the research for my book. The stories I heard throughout my interviews were very similar in nature when discussing topics like recovering from aortic valve surgery.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Patient&#8217;s Guide To Heart Valve Surgery<\/em> is my attempt to help future patients and caregivers through each step of the surgical process.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}