Dignity Well being Medical Group — Bakersfield doctor supplies revolutionary, 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 eager about 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 Health Medical Group — Bakersfield, had an concept. Dr. Peck prompt utilizing AlphaVac know-how to take away Kimberly’s clot. AlphaVac is an instrument designed to suction out a mass by coming into a vein to entry a number of components of the physique. 

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

Utilizing AlphaVac know-how at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Dr. Peck was capable of 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 capable of return house after only one night time’s keep within the hospital. 

The provision of the AlphaVac process for Kern County residents with coronary heart clots, tumors or different coronary heart plenty needing to be eliminated will dramatically enhance general affected person restoration and cut back danger of problems 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 steadily analysis new applied sciences and learn the way they may also help our sufferers extra successfully.”