{"id":35746,"date":"2022-11-15T03:52:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T08:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=35746"},"modified":"2022-11-18T11:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:02:31","slug":"wakemed-heart-vascular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2022\/11\/15\/wakemed-heart-vascular\/","title":{"rendered":"WakeMed Heart &#038; Vascular Joins Our Community!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very excited to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/hospital\/wakemed\">WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular<\/a> in Raleigh, North Carolina, just became the newest heart valve surgery center to join us at HeartValveSurgery.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/wakemed-joins-heartvalvesurgery.com_.jpg\" alt=\"WakeMed Joins HeartValveSurgery.com\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For decades, WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular has been a leader in cardiovascular surgical care \u2013 well-known for its compassionate, personalized care matched with a relentless focus on quality and exceptional outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Specific to heart valve disease, WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular has developed innovative and minimally-invasive techniques to treat all forms of valvular defects and related cardiac conditions such as atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease and aortic aneurysms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/profileImages\/451_129_175.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Judson Williams\" width=\"129\" height=\"175\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Judson-Williams-Raleigh-North%20Carolina.php\">Dr. Judson Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to join forces with the HeartValveSurgery.com community,\u201d states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Judson-Williams-Raleigh-North%20Carolina.php\">Dr. Judson Williams<\/a>, a leading cardiac surgeon at WakeMed and executive medical director of WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular. \u201cTogether, we can really help educate and empower patients with heart valve disease.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Superior Patient Outcomes with ERAS Cardiac<\/h2>\n<p>Dr. Williams was responsible for introducing the first Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERAS Cardiac) program at WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular. ERAS Cardiac is an evidence-based, interdisciplinary process for helping patients recover from heart surgery. Watch this video to learn more about ERAS Cardiac.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mVL1UDstR7c?rel=0\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A \u201cHeart Team\u201d Approach to Valvular Disease<\/h2>\n<p>WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular brings together experts in cardiology and cardiovascular, thoracic, and vascular surgery who are dedicated to delivering the highest level of cardiovascular care to patients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Leading physicians on the WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular repair and replacement team include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Bryon-Boulton-Raleigh-North%20Carolina.php\">Dr. Bryon Boulton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Trevor-Upham-Raleigh-North%20Carolina.php\">Dr. Trevor Upham<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakemed.org\/provider\/frances-o-wood-md-facc-cardiology\">Dr. Frances Wood<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakemed.org\/provider\/brian-m-go-md-facc-cardiology\">Dr. Brian Go<\/a>. With a sub-specialized team approach to valvular disease, WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular offers its patients a broad spectrum of traditional and minimally-invasive procedures including robot-assisted surgery, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CsTZAxoypmg\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular Microsite Launches!<\/h2>\n<p>To help educate patients at HeartValveSurgery.com about WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular, we just launched a new WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular microsite at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/hospital\/wakemed\">this link<\/a> to highlight their approach to all forms of surgical and interventional valve therapies available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/hospital\/wakemed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/wakemed-heart-valve-center-microsite.jpg\" alt=\"WakeMed Heart Valve Microsite\" width=\"650\" height=\"569\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Many Thanks WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular!<\/h2>\n<p>On behalf of our patient and caregiver community, many thanks to WakeMed Heart &amp; Vascular for supporting this website, our community and our educational initiatives!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-surgeons-clinics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746","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=35746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35797,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746\/revisions\/35797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}