Arkansas Heart Hospital has three operating suites.

Procedures

• CABG (Heart bypass) - on pump
• CABG - off pump
• ENDOSCOPIC VEIN HARVESTING
• TRANS MYOCARDIAL REVASCULURATION
• Valve Replacement and Repair
• OPEN THORACOTOMY
• OPEN CHOLECYSTECTOMY
• LAPAROTOMY
• Aneurysm Repair (THORACIC / ABDOMINAL / PSEUDO (GROIN)
• Carotid Endartectomy
• FEM-TIB BI-PASS
• FEM-FEM BI-PASS
• FEM-POP BI-PASS
• LAPROSCOPIC SURGERY INCLUDING: CHOLECYSTECTOMY/ THORCOSCOPY
• APPENDECTOMY

The three-room surgical suite is located on the first floor of the hospital and is designed to provide cardiac, thoracic and peripheral vascular surgical procedures.  All operating rooms are equipped with hemodynamic monitoring equipment and emergency equipment needed to provide quality care.

Every patient taken to the surgical department will be assessed, cared for and transferred by a registered nurse.  The attending surgeon, in conjunction with the anesthesiologist, will treat each patient based on his/her pre-operative assessment.