Issste advances in strategy to reduce surgical backlog with 36 cardiac surgeries in BC / @ISSSTE_mx >>>

#ISSSTE.- In order to speed up attention and expand services for the benefit of its beneficiaries, the Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (Issste) performed 36 interventions during the cardiology day in Baja California, which is part of the strategy to reduce the backlog of surgeries in order to provide timely attention.

Within the framework of World Heart Day, which is commemorated on October 29, José Alfredo Merino Rajme, clinical cardiologist and interventional cardiologist at the “20 de Noviembre” National Medical Center (CMN), who coordinated the surgeries performed in Baja California, explained that the work plan instructed by the Director General, Martí Batres Guadarrama, is to follow up on the care of the beneficiaries, especially in procedures that can save their lives immediately.

“Medical attention is nothing if it is not timely, even more so if it is a heart condition, in which you are practically risking your life if you do not attend to it in time”.

The procedure performed in the state, he indicated, was the placement of a percutaneous aortic valve with a minimally invasive technique, with the patient awake, which helps to solve one of the most important diseases that exist, such as aortic stenosis, which is fatal.

This disease causes sudden cardiac death or deteriorates the heart muscle to the point of heart failure. Therefore, the promise we make to the patient when he/she arrives to receive coronary revascularization, pacemaker or aortic valve, is to take care of him/her in the right way, he/she commented.

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