{"id":3786,"date":"2011-02-05T12:26:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T17:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2018-08-30T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T22:42:14","slug":"surgeon-video-vincent-gaudiani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2011\/02\/05\/surgeon-video-vincent-gaudiani\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon Video Blog: &#8220;What Advice Would You Give Yourself If You Were A Patient?&#8221; By Dr. Vincent Gaudiani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those unfamiliar with the name &#8220;Dr. Vincent Gaudiani&#8221;, I&#8217;m hopeful this video provides a unique opportunity for you to gain awareness and access to this special cardiac surgeon from Northern California. During his 25+ year career, Dr. Gaudiani has performed over 10,000 heart-related surgeries. Most importantly, Dr. Gaudiani has a way with patients that compels them to email me glowing surgical reviews, praise and success stories (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/10\/09\/gaudiani-heart-valve-replacement-patient-success\/\">George Avakian<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>That said, I was excited to meet with and interview Dr. Vincent Gaudiani at the 47th annual <em>Society of Thoracic Surgeons<\/em> convention earlier this week. Here is Dr. Gaudiani&#8217;s response to the question, &#8220;What advice would you give yourself if you were a patient?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tFK6w4Ue6oI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Also, for those of you who are hearing impaired, I have provided a transcript below for your review.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Adam:\u00a0 Hi, everybody.\u00a0 It\u2019s Adam and we are here at STS in San Diego and we\u2019re answering your questions that you posted at HeartValveBlog.com.\u00a0 W are very fortunate to be here with Dr. Vincent Gaudiani who I\u2019ve known for several years now.\u00a0 Vincent, Dr. Gaudiani, practices in northern California and the question is:\u00a0 As a surgeon, if you were to become a patient, knowing all that you know, what advice would you give yourself if you were actually that patient?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gaudiani:\u00a0 It\u2019s an excellent question, and the first part of the answer is cardiac surgery, more than any other specialty, is about outcomes.\u00a0 So, whoever you decide to go to, you should be able to find out what their outcomes have been over quite a long period of time, not the last three cases.\u00a0 You know, that\u2019s the way our brains were designed, to do stories.\u00a0 What happened last week.\u00a0 What happened over the last five years.\u00a0 How good are their outcomes because it\u2019s very hard to be who you are if you die during the operation or you had a serious complication.\u00a0 So once you actually know numbers, five year results for instance, then the next thing I\u2019d do is go and talk to several people who have good results and ultimately choose someone who you\u2019re comfortable with, someone with whom you feel comfortable as a person because it\u2019s much more likely that you will do well and that you\u2019ll be emotionally whole afterwards if you feel like you were cared for by someone who you, yourself, were comfortable with as a person.\u00a0 So those would be my two highest recommendations and then after that, look into the hospital and the various other things, but the two key ideas are how good are this person\u2019s results or this unit\u2019s results and am I comfortable with this man.\u00a0 Thanks, Adam.<\/p>\n<p>Adam:\u00a0 Those are great points and just a follow-up question&#8230; As I remember this &#8212; as a patient &#8212; I get lots of questions sometimes.\u00a0 How do I get the surgical results from the surgeons?\u00a0 How do I know can I trust what they\u2019re saying?\u00a0 Do they publish them?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Vincent Gaudiani:\u00a0 That\u2019s a good \u2013 That\u2019s an excellent question, and the answer to that is first of all, very shortly if not already, Consumers Union has some preliminary stuff out that they got from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons which is sort of the overall group that guides cardiac surgery and that\u2019s \u2013 we\u2019re actually \u2013 we\u2019re at a meeting there today.\u00a0 Adam and I are both at this meeting.\u00a0 So, STS has these results and they will make them public and they are making them public on a website.\u00a0 But the surgeon, himself, should show you results in a published form or on a website because you want to make sure they do a lot of this kind of surgery and that they\u2019ve done it well in the past.\u00a0 So, just being told that they\u2019ve done it well is not \u2013 wouldn\u2019t be enough for me.\u00a0 I\u2019d actually want to see the numbers and then make sure you\u2019re comfortable with them as a person.<\/p>\n<p>Adam:\u00a0 Great.\u00a0 Well, as always, you\u2019ve been a great supporter of our website, helping out, contributing, giving your advice and counsel.\u00a0 You\u2019ve also done incredible things for many of the patients who may actually be watching this who have come to you for surgery, so on behalf of all those patients, I just want to say thank you and keep up the great job and look forward to chatting with you in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Gaudiani:\u00a0 Same goes with you, Adam.\u00a0 You\u2019ve done a great job helping people to know what to do when they have to face a valve operation.\u00a0 Good for you.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: Thanks so much!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Vincent-Gaudiani-Mountain+View-California.php\">To learn more about Dr. Vincent Gaudiani, please click here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3786","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\/3786","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=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}