Question About a Life Saving Device? Posted: 01-29-06 00:10am
2 years ago my husband had a major heart
attack on a friday. He had a cath done
and a temporary stint put in. Then he
was put in icu. We were told that he was
going to have by-pass surgery the
following tuesday. He continued to
complain with chest pains and his surgeon
said he did not want to do surgery just
yet. He wanted my husbands heart some
time to bouce back from the heart attack.
So he put in a device. It went in the
left leg in the groin area like a heart
cath. They did it right there in the icu
room. It was hooked to a machine at the
foot of the bed. I think they called it
a heart pump or something like that.
Could some one let me know what this
procedure is and what it is called. It
stayed in until thursday. A couple of
days after his 4 by-pass.
