Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

What is Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery?
When the arteries in your heart get blocked from fat and cholesterol, oxygen cannot get to your heart. This is called coronary artery disease. You may feel this as chest pain (angina) and it can lead to a heart attack. To prevent this from happening, your physician must take a vein from your leg or an artery from your chest and bypass or go around the blocked artery. This will let oxygen get to your heart muscle.

Recovering from Surgery
After this procedure your heart will be getting more oxygen and you should start feeling better very soon. Although heart disease is a very serious condition, it can be controlled with diet, exercise, medication and positive health habits. At Sparrow Home Care we have a six-step process that systematically helps educate you and your caregiver to manage your health after coronary artery bypass surgery. Of course, this process can be extended and is always individualized for each patient encounter.

Step 1:
Disease management
Safety precautions
Psycho/social aspects
Community resources

Step 2:
Expands your knowledge of disease management
Continues with medication teaching
Discusses nutritional needs
Talks about activity
Continues with safety precautions
Assists with psycho/social related issues
Assists with community resources

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Additionally, Sparrow Home Care nurses will teach you to care for your incisions, how to save energy and breathe easier, how to take your pulse, provide information on cholesterol, and other nutritional tips. We will provide you with a diet log, weight, symptom, activity log, exercise, pulse log, and medication schedule.

With each continuing step of our 6-step process we set attainable goals for you to meet. We measure your awareness or the awareness of the caregiver to ensure all aspects of the goals are being met. Many times we need to step back - and that is OK, the 6-step process is easily individualized. The goals are guidelines for us to follow to ensure a comprehensive approach to care. As always, your physician develops your plan of care and directs the nursing and therapy staff in modifying your plan of care to best meet your needs.

Insurance reimbursed homecare must be under the direction of your physician. Remember to ask for SPARROW HOME CARE - the best choice for home care services in mid-Michigan. Celebrating over 20 years of service.