Dignity Well being Medical Group — Bakersfield doctor offers modern, open coronary heart surgical procedure different

When Kern County resident, Kimberly Marchant first discovered she had a blood clot in her coronary heart that wanted to be eliminated, her first thought was “I don’t understand how I’m going to do that.” Kimberly was interested by how she would handle the restoration from open-heart surgical procedure, the proposed therapy for her situation.

After a number of consultations and scans, Eric Peck, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon with Dignity Well being Medical Group — Bakersfield, had an thought. Dr. Peck instructed utilizing AlphaVac expertise to take away Kimberly’s clot. AlphaVac is an instrument designed to suction out a mass by getting into a vein to entry a number of components of the physique. 

“I used to be immediately relieved to have this selection as a result of I wouldn’t must miss that a lot work,” says Kimberly. “So many issues in my life which can be vital to me would have come to a halt if I might have needed to endure coronary heart surgical procedure.”

Utilizing AlphaVac expertise at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Dr. Peck was in a position to take away the blood clot by making an incision within the thigh, following a vein all the way in which to the higher proper coronary heart chamber. The process took underneath two hours to finish and Kimberly was in a position to return residence after only one evening’s keep within the hospital. 

The supply of the AlphaVac process for Kern County residents with coronary heart clots, tumors or different coronary heart lots needing to be eliminated will dramatically enhance total affected person restoration and cut back danger of issues associated to surgical procedure. The success of this process is a major instance of how Dignity Well being continues to advance cardiovascular care by figuring out new, minimally invasive options.

“Being on the forefront of cardiovascular care permits us to proceed to enhance affected person outcomes, serving to them get again to life extra shortly,” says Dr. Peck. “We continuously analysis new applied sciences and find out how they will help our sufferers extra successfully.”