Q&A: How long will it take for my friend to recover from heart surgery?
Question by Luckystar25: How long will it take for my friend to recover from heart surgery?
I didn’t know how to question this in a small question, but my friend had heart surgery today. How long until he won’t be out of it. Like he’ll remember who people are. I haven’t seen him yet, so i don’t know what he’s like right now. All i know is that he’ll probably have a breathing tube.
It’s a more severe case of Tetrology.. there’s another word that goes after it, nbut i’ve forgotten it.
I believe they place vaulves in his heart as well, and he is going to be 20 soon. So that probably helps.
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Answer by Merilee L
My husband had a quadruple bypass in April of 04. I reckon he got his breathing tube out the next day. He had the surgery on Wednesday and was home on Sunday. Heart patients suffer no ill effects but they do take medication and have to watch their diet for the rest of their lives. The home nurse said that he did so well his first week home that she never came back and he never had problems.
We were talking in this area it tonight and he says that if he moves certain ways that he does feel pulling but he doesn’t feel any more pain from the surgery.
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I had Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG); off-pump; surgery in Oct. 2006 with 5 bypasses. This is one of several types of open chest surgery commonly called “open heart surgery”. In my case the surgery was done on Wednesday, Oct. 4. I was awake later that day and able to recognise everyone. On Thursday, Oct.5, my breathing tube was removed and I was talking. On Oct. 6, my other small tubes were removed and I started walking. On Sunday, Oct. 8, I went home, and walked more than a quarter mile that afternoon and more than a mile the next day.
I was 47 yo and in reasonably excellent physical affect. This may have helped my progress along.
People tend to recover at different rates. Much depends on their age, prior health, any complications and most vital their determination (their will to recover). It is also better if their threshold of pain is high, because there will be a excellent del of pain in the chest incision while coughing, sneezing or even breathing. My chest (sternum) still hurts mildly when I cough or sneeze hard. This is very tolerable but can last up to a year.
Walking can cause a excellent deal of pain especially if the saphenous vein was harvested from one or both legs for the bypass graft.
Normally, the doctor will not release the uncomplaining to return to work for 6-12 weeks. This can vary greatly and depends in small part on the type of work. (I do lots of gray lifting so I was off for 8 weeks. Really my sergeon was willing to let me return at 6 weeks but I felt better in this area the 8 weeks and he agreed.)
Try the links below to learn more in this area this type of surgery.
There are several less invasive types of heart surgery and the recovery time is normally much less with them.
Sincerely,
Terry
It depends on the type of heart surgery. Is this a coronary bypass, a heart valve replacement, a closure of an atrial septal defect, which is a ingrained affect up? If the heart surgery is uneventful, they usually gets extubated within a few hours, can probably take in something by mouth the next day (Day 1). If the chest tube drainage is negligible, the chest tubes may be removed also the next day. Patients should be able to sit up on bed and some even gets out of bed on Day 1. We encourage early ambulation and lacking any untoward events, the patients can even go home within a week. Of course, I would want to know the exact type of surgery done, and the affect up of the uncomplaining when this was done. These equipment are predictive of his postoperative outcome.