Most patients with heart disease have two primary concerns:  Can this be fixed, and will I survive the procedure?  These days most problems can be fixed successfully.  Dr. Davis has trained extensively in both heart and large vessel diseases.  He has combined the best of time-proven methods with cutting-edge minimally invasive techniques to put as little stress on the body as possible. 

Remember the days when heart surgery meant a cracked open chest and a long scar down the leg?  It doesn’t have to be that way any more.  In many cases, with the robot and other minimally invasive methods, the chest can stay closed and the leg may only have two to four very small scars. This means less pain, less blood loss, quicker recovery times and shorter hospital

stays.

This time proven operation remains as the only literature-proven method for prolonging life in patients with coronary artery blockages. Recent large scale trials* have demonstrated that bypass operations were superior to stent placement in reducing major adverse events (death, stroke, heart attack, need for repeated procedure). Dr. Davis incorporates all to the proven methods

for prolonging life and decreasing complications. These include the primary use of arteries as grafts- mammary arteries and radial artery grafts. These have been demonstrated to have more long-term durability than vein grafts. ------------------------------------------------------------                      Beating heart surgery is commonplace in Dr. Davis’ OR. Beating heart surgery has been proven in over 2600 papers to reduce blood transfusions, reduce the stress upon the heart, reduce the chance of heart attack, reduce the need for mechanical ventilation, reduce the incidence of stroke, and reduce ICU and total hospital days. Obviously this is a technique that all should use routinely, but currently in the USA, only 24% of operations are performed this way. Dr. Davis performs over 95% of his coronary operations on the beating heart.

Those patients whose blocked arteries are accessible by minimally invasive approaches will be offered the option of a robotic assisted procedure. For this form of surgery, female patients could wear a bikini subsequently with only a dime sized scar being visible. More importantly, these patients have been known to walk around their room on the day of surgery, and walk up and down the hallway on the day after their surgery.

*(New England Journal of Medicine 2009 Mar 5;360(10):961-72 )