{"id":466,"date":"2008-07-29T06:44:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T11:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/07\/29\/annual-open-heart-surgery-operations\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:23:39","slug":"annual-open-heart-surgery-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/07\/29\/annual-open-heart-surgery-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Take A Guess: How Many Annual Open Heart Surgery Operations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know how many open heart surgeries were performed in the United States during 2005?<\/p>\n<p>Want to take a guess? Go ahead&#8230; Close your eyes and think about it. Okay. Now open your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>(Scroll down for the answer.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/american-heart.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"100\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the American Heart Association, the number of annual open heart surgeries performed in the United States was approximately 699,000 during 2005. The break-down of some open heart surgeries, by procedure, was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bypass (cardiac revascularization) &#8211; 469,000<\/li>\n<li>Heart transplants &#8211; 2,200<\/li>\n<li>Valve replacements &#8211; 106,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why did I write about this?<\/p>\n<p>Well. I am hopeful that it will help future patients and caregivers better understand that open-heart surgery, while complex and risky, is a relatively routine procedure. Click this link to further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/valve-mortality-surgery-repair-replacement.php\">dispel your fear of heart surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/466","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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}