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CABG recovery & visitation expectations?

Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: 4 hours ago | Replies (16)
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@delphiniums
Welcome to Mayo Connect!
I understand how worried you must be. It’s a big surgery in itself and then the extra worry about possible transplant.
My husband had an urgent CABG surgery 12 years ago- he is still doing very well.
I was able to visit in the recovery room as well as ICU- generous visitation.
They have to. open up the chest wall at the sternum. In recovery the healing will cause some discomfort. He was discharged home after a couple of days and had therapists come a couple of times.
In general, the hospital stay was easier than expected.
Ask a lot of questions- each institution has different rules, especially if there’s respiratory infections in area- flu, COVID etc

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delphiniums | @delphiniums | 1 day ago

Thank you very much for sharing, and I'm so glad to hear your husband is doing well.

I am wondering if there's a patient advocate at Mayo who I can ask about policies. So far, I have not found a link to anything specific about visitation.

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