{"id":254,"date":"2007-11-05T02:46:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T07:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/11\/05\/can-a-patient-be-awake-during-heart-surgery-bypass-valve-surgery\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:47:52","slug":"can-a-patient-be-awake-during-heart-surgery-bypass-valve-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/11\/05\/can-a-patient-be-awake-during-heart-surgery-bypass-valve-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Can A Patient Be Awake During Heart Surgery? Bypass? Valve Surgery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was news to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that patients can be awake during a heart bypass operation?<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea this was possible\u00a0until I just saw an incredible\u00a0video on Youtube.com about patients being awake during cardiac surgery.<\/p>\n<p>In India, several cardiac surgeons are pioneering heart valve operations (including valve repair and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-valve-replacement.php\">valve replacement<\/a>) in which the patient is awake. No general anesthetic is used throughout the entire procedure.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still a little amazed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_JyC5YK6wVE\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/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":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heart-valve-replacement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}