How long on Pump Poll

[Zipper]

Hi all,

Speaking of 'pumpheads'..lol..I am one, too. It made me curious about the various lengths of time we were 'on pump'...My time was 91 minutes...I had a double bypass and aortic valve replaced. Just curious..if anyone would like to share!

My husband had CABG x 4 in August/2001 in an 'off-pump' procedure and seemed to have a quicker recovery than I, altho he still loses his keys ALL the time...lol!

I lose 'words' mid-sentence, that are well known to me and also names escape me often. I make lots of notes that help when I can find them...grin.

Hope to hear of others 'pump' times.

Zipper *~*

 

[Ross]

My first time, 123 minutes.
Stay tuned for the second time!

 

[mainframe]

56 minutes.

 

[Johnny Stephens]

2 hours for 2 valves...aortic and mitral replacements.

 

[gary]

45 minutes; AVR C-E bovine pericardial; Cosgrove; CCF

 

[BrooksM]

111 Minutes

111 Minutes

111 minutes for Synergraft AVR

Brooks

 

[Marty]

pump time

pump time

87 minutes mitral valve replacement with St. Jude
bileaflet mechanical. The surgeon said he wasted a little time trying a repair but the native valve was too screwed up.

 

[joy]

don't know...I think it took 2 hours.

 

[Rain]

Pump heads...

Pump heads...

127 minutes........ do I win a prize? lol

Or did I lose?

 

[Granbonny]

Shortest time?

Shortest time?

I asked hubby and he said 21 minutes...Will confirm with daughter when she returns from California..Hubby has "selective: hearing...He may be correct but that sounds short.....Said that was as long as he (Surgeon) told my family he liked to keep his patients on machine.....

 

[DickV]

Pump time 148 minutes
clamp time 94 minutes

When they do an aortic valve plus an aortic graph and the heart-lung machine is hooked up to your femoral artery in your groin area rather than the chest. Leg hurt like a SOB afterwards, right Bob and Rob?

 

[Ross]

When they do an aortic valve plus an aortic graph and the heart-lung machine is hooked up to your femoral artery in your groin area rather than the chest.

So that's why I have a scar down there. I was out for over a month. Docs keep asking what that scar is from and I never knew what to say.

Now I feel educated!

 

[DickV]

Ross, ask your cutter's office for a copy of your Operative Report. It gives all kinds of details. Some balk but stay after them until you get it.

 

[Hank]

Heart Death (stopped)

Heart Death (stopped)

I was dead for about 45 minutes I think. That was long enough for all those micro-emboli to be missed by the man made pump/filter thingy. Now they float around and screw up my vision every other week or so.

 

[Mb]

Hmmmm.........I am not sure how long. I know they started surgery at 6:30 AM, and did not finish till 3:45. It was a very long day. Any ideas anyone?

Marybeth

 

[Rain]

I asked my surgeon?s office for a copy of the ?operative report?. They finally sent me a pretty decent report. It was Dr. Propp?s report of the operation, it has lots of information. But, I wanted the hospital records of the surgery itself. They kept telling me that they don?t give out that information, because it might scare the patient. lol Before I left the hospital I had told Dr. Propp I wanted the records and he told me, ?no problem?. I held him to it!! It has ALL of the reports besides every detail of the operation. Very interesting.

About the same time I was doing all of that, I called St. Jude and asked them a million questions about my valve. They sent me a replica of the valve itself and a cute little postcard size picture of it.

What?s a girl to do while she?s recovering? lol I harassed the hospital and Drs. for my records!

Rain

 

[Mara]

I was on about 4 hours (total surgery 7 hours). Am I second to John Cochran? He wins the prize!
I still have my pumphead moments, but it's getting better. I can read a book now. But still can't think of the right names for everyday objects. Yipes!

 

[alpage]

I have a copy of the operative report, and it lists "cross-clamp time 81 minutes".

 

[DickV]

Alpage, if you were on the clamp for 81 minutres, you were on the pump longer than that. Clamp time is when they clamp off your heart and work on it. You may be up there with the leaders.

 

[MarkU]

45 minutes on the pump. Overall surgery was a little less than 90 minutes for a St. Jude installation. Everything was pretty straight forward.
A very good friend of mine is the head of perfusion at my hospital and did my case himself. A side benefit was that he used his cell phone from the operating room to give updates to my wife & family in the waiting room. Kind of a play-by-play commentary. My wife appreciated it, but I suppose not everyone would.