At Bristol Regional Medical Center, we’re helping heart-surgery patients avoid complications and recover more quickly. How? With off-pump bypass surgery, or “beating-heart surgery.” Unlike traditional bypass surgery, which stops the heart, off-pump bypass surgery keeps your heart beating during and after surgery—and the surgeons at Bristol Regional Medical Center are the regional leaders in this method. Research shows that patients who have this procedure have:
- lower loss of blood
- less risk of stroke
- typically shorter hospital stays
According to the American Heart Association, about 30 percent of the 500,000 coronary artery bypass surgeries performed in the United States each year are off-pump procedures, and the number is growing.