I cannot recommend University Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute.
We did go to another major heart center and they repeated the viability test WITH thallium and they said the entire heart muscle was alive except for a tiny piece at the bottom of the heart. My husband successfully underwent a quadruple bypass and is home healing well.
Very good Doctors.
On Dec. 30th, my husband began choking on a piece of peach from his dinner tray when a cough came up while eating dinner. We could not find a staff member anywhere and our son had to perform the Heimlich maneuver on his dad to get his airway open. Had our son not been present at the time, I could not have gotten my husband out of the bed to perform that on him due to his size vs my strength.
One surgeon was willing to try bypass surgery on my husband but within one hour of telling us this, he was overruled by another surgeon. The overruling surgeon never had the decency to step foot in the room and tell us why or to offer to help us find a center of excellence somewhere that might be able to handle a case as high risk as my husband's. We did not expect miracles but we did expect to be treated with the decency to be allowed to make our own decisions. The second doctor that came in to see us was arrogant and said he was "our only option". His ego was more important than my husband's life. When we made the family decision to take my husband to another major heart center in another state, the arrogant doctor became unprofessional and sarcastic.
University ran a heart viability test which requires thallium, however they had run out of thallium and tried to make do instead of borrowing thallium from another hospital or finding a way to have this test done at another facility. This test is critical to evaluating how much of the heart muscle is still alive after a heart attack. University said their test showed the entire left side of his heart was dead.
Dr. Srid is the absolute WORST. He did not wait until I was sedated for the endoscopasy procedure. I was awake the ENTIRE procedure. He said something like I kept gagging, so she’s making this difficult and I directly looked at him and said I’M STILL AWAKE! He would not let the super sweet nurse give me more sedatives that were clearly not working. The nurse was very compassionate, but Dr. Srid was heartless the whole procedure as I was crying while a tube was being shoved through my throat into my stomach and to my heart. Absolutely disgusted.
My husband had quadruple by-pass surgery last week. His cardiologist and surgeon have been excellent, as well as all the Physical Therapists. The nursing staff in ICU for post surgery was most excellent!! The nursing staff on the cardiac floor, however, has been inconsistent to say the least. At times, we had nurses that were most professional and caring. At other hours, they were absolutely scarce! One nurse in particular acted as if she was inconvenienced that I asked for clean linen for my husband's bed. I had no problem changing the sheets myself, if they were supplied. On the other hand, several of his nurses were a great blessing in their medical expertise and their caring attitude.
It is my assumption that this unit is extremely under-staffed, because the care that we have received has been good - when it was available. At the moment I am quite ambivalent about this situation. I thank God for the medical expertise in the CSRA. My prayer is that the hospital will examine their personnel and evaluate the ratio of staff to patients. It is with gratitude that I know that Jesus is our ultimate healer and pray that medical professionals will do their best to aid in the physical aspect of healing people in our community.
My husband suffered a heart attack on Dec. 27th and was admitted via the ER to University Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute. There were multiple times when we would open the door to his room and look for a staff member to alert them to a need that we could not find a single human being on the floor in sight. There was no nurses desk, unit clerk, or other staff member to be seen on multiple occasions! They were always very slow to answer the call light. The nurses were assigned way too many patients. On the day we discharged my husband, his nurse had been assigned five patients! That is too many!
Extremely professional and caring. Will go back if I need it. Nurses are the absolute best.Doctors care and take time to really know who you are.
University Hospital Heart Vascular Institute is a US Hospital based in Augusta, South Carolina. University Hospital Heart Vascular Institute is located at 1350 Walton Way, Augusta, GA 30901, USA.
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