The section of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Augusta University Medical Center features a team of highly specialized surgeons who offer a complete range of cardiovascular surgeries, including:
Our renowned cardiothoracic surgeons play an integral role at our Heart and Cardiovascular Health Services Center, where we provide comprehensive, coordinated and team-based inpatient and outpatient care to patients with the full range of cardiovascular diseases, from arrhythmias to peripheral vascular disease, from heart attacks to carotid artery disease.
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Continue ReadingOn a typical day, respiratory therapists move throughout the hospital providing pulmonary care, including administering breathing treatments, assisting with intubations and extubations, managing ventilators and ensuring patients can breathe well.
Continue ReadingAs COVID-19 started to spread, a new program was starting up at AU Health. It came at the perfect time to save lives. It’s called an ECMO machine, and what it stands for is hard to pronounce. But what matters is it’s giving people a second chance. “It does provide you an opportunity to improve the survival of patients,” Dr. Vijay Patel, a cardiothoracic surgeon, said. Patel has been involved since they started developing the adult ECMO program a year ago.
Continue ReadingTwo respiratory therapists at Augusta University Medical center took the initiative to get certified on the ECMO machine, which acts as an iron lung or heart. They say it’s a game changer for Covid patients.
Continue ReadingA local man hospitalized for heart failure was discharged from AU Health after spending 6 weeks recovering from a newly done surgery. Erik Scheriber has been suffering from heart failure for nearly 10 years. AU Health staff cheered after he was able to go home after 6 long weeks in the hospital recovering from a successful heart surgery. His doctors say in the beginning they weren’t sure what would happen. One of his doctors Dr. Stephanie Dunlap says, "We had some tough times, some tough days.”
Continue ReadingErik Schreiber is the first heart failure patient at AU Health to receive a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD). After months of severe illness, he walked out of the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit. Carefully, Erik Schreiber rose out of his wheelchair and began walking toward the exit of the new Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at AU Health, fist-bumping health care workers who lined the halls celebrating his discharge.
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