Our World-Class Heart Surgery Program
From left to right: Adam Harmon, MD; Conrad Vial, MD; Vincent Gaudiani, MD; Luis Castro, MD; and Tomomi Oka, MD.
What makes Sequoia’s heart surgery program unique?
• The best outcomes: As a result of their unique skills, the cardiac surgeons who perform at Sequoia Hospital have the well deserved reputation of performing very complex surgery with outstanding results. Consequently, they often have served as the only surgical option for high-risk patients. See for yourself: Adult Cardiac Surgery Results 2010.
• Highly skilled and experienced heart surgeons: Sequoia patients in need of heart surgery are seen by nationally renowned heart surgeons at Sequoia Medical Group and Pacific Coast Cardiac and Vascular Surgeons.
• Minimally invasive techniques: Surgeons have performed more than 2,000 operations through mini incisions and also do coronary bypass off the heart-lung machine on appropriate candidates. These techniques help to reduce hospital stay and shorten recovery times.
Procedures include:
• minimally invasive surgery
• valve surgery (repair and replacement)
• coronary bypass surgery
• complex surgery for patients who have undergone one or more previous cardiac operations
• the surgical MAZE procedure for atrial fibrillation
