Although heart attacks are a problem for both genders, heart attacks in women are unique: there are different signs, different symptoms, and different options for rehabilitation after surgery (like postoperative bras instead of general sternum support devices).
After surgery, you have one goal in mind for your patients: fast, comfortable healing. Unfortunately, this isn't always easy--and there can be plenty of hiccups along the way. The good news is that, with tools like a postoperative bra, healing can be a quicker and easier journey for your patients.
It is said that pain after a thoracotomy is among the most severe post-surgery pains--and it's likely that your patients would agree. You know just how much of an obstacle to healing pain can be, bringing obstacles and possible complications, but luckily, there are answers. With respiratory splinting, managing post-thoracotomy pain is easier than ever.
Sternum stabilization is a crucial part of the recovery process after any surgery on the chest--but, as experts and patients alike already know, not all healing processes were created equal. In some cases, like after mitral valve repair surgery, the journey toward recovery is a little more complicated, and that makes sternum stabilization all the more important.
You're a professional. You're likely interested in the medical field and all of the beneficial and, frankly, kind of amazing advances that it makes--but at the end of the day, what's most important to you is knowing how these advances can help your patients get healthy quicker and more comfortably. That's just what one study set out to prove--and the results about postoperative bras could revolutionize healing for cardiac patients.
As a medical professional, you know just how important healing is. You also know that healing is a journey--and it can be helpful for your patients to have a little support along the way. That's exactly what Heart Hugger provides, both literally and metaphorically. Heart Hugger is a sternum stabilization garment that provides the support that patients need after surgery, and it is specially designed to offer extra support for the unique needs and goals of a woman's healing journey.
After surgery, healing is the top priority, and it has to be a team effort between mind and body. However, sometimes the body needs a little help, and that's where a postoperative bra comes in.
Postoperative bras are garments created to offer support and comfort to a patient's entire chest after surgery--whether it's heart surgery, a mastectomy, or cosmetic reconstruction. This means that all postoperative bras are a little bit different; they must meet the varying needs of a wide variety of patients. However, the key to using a postoperative bra to speed healing and make a patient comfortable is to find the right garment for each patient's unique needs and recovery goals.
Our Postoperative Bra experts know how important it is to match the right garment to the right patient. Here's a quick look at what to consider!
We've all heard it before: "life's a journey, not a destination." While that may be true in life, there are some things that are defined by the destination and not the journey. For example, what about a trip to the grocery store? Chances are, you're not too focused on the journey itself; it's a combination of roads you've driven a thousand times before, stoplights you know like the back of your hand, and turns you could make with your eyes closed (although that's not recommended). In this case, most of us are more concerned with the destination. What do we need at the store? Will it be crowded? How fast can we get the job done? It's true: there are many things in life where destination is emphasized over journey--and heart surgery is one of them.
Although science and medicine have become incredibly sophisticated in recent years, some things haven't changed: heart surgeries remain invasive and difficult to recover from. Luckily, until technology advances enough to change that, devices like Heart Hugger are here to minimize the risk of Sternal Dehiscence and improve healing.
The healing process is an incredibly important part of the heart surgery journey--however, the unfortunate truth is that the healing process isn't always comfortable. The wound from the operation can make exercising, moving, coughing, and even breathing extremely uncomfortable for your patients, which, in turn, makes it more difficult for them to follow your instructions for quick and strong healing. There is also the danger of Sternal Dehiscence to contend with--a complication as formidable as it is infamous. To solve all of these problems at once and speed up the healing process, you need sternum support.
Chest pain is a serious condition. There are many different types of chest pain, all of them caused by different things and treated in different ways, and one particularly troublesome type of chest pain is pleuritic chest pain. Not only does it cause ongoing discomfort and make everyday activities, even breathing, a chore--it can also be a sign of something more serious, and, in some cases, it can lead to serious complications. Luckily, there is a solution: Respiratory Splinting with the Heart Hugger device.
