Informative Speech: The Three Most Common Cardiac Surgeries

3 Most Common Cardiac Surgeries

PURPOSE STATEMENT: I want to inform my audience about 3 different types of Cardiac surgeries.

THESIS STATEMENT: today I am going to inform you about the differences between the 3 most common cardiac surgeries.

I. INTRODUCTION

a. ATTENTION GETTING DEVICE: every year 715,000 Americans have a heart attack. 15 percent of these people will die from it.

b. CREDIBILITY: At work, I am trained to see medical emergencies and how to keep it from getting worse until help arrives. after the Patrons (the people that come to the pool) leave my arms I don’t exactly know what happens to them if they have to have surgery if it’s a heart attack or stroke.

c. JUSTIFICATION: So, I decided to extensive research on what kind

II. BODY

a. MAIN POINT #1: a heart transplant is one of the most common surgeries.

i. SUB-POINT #1: A heart transplant is surgery to remove a bad heart from one person and replace it with a healthy one from someone else.

1. SUB-SUB POINT #1: In 1945 the first heart transplant was done by a man named Nikolai when he transplanted a heart from one frog to another and then a heart from one dog into another. ii. SUB-POINT #2: Christiaan Bernard was the very first person to perform a human heart transplant. He used the techniques from Norman Shumway.

1. SUB-SUB POINT #1: Stanford medicine news center tells us Norman Shumway “performed the first successful human heart transplant in the United States in 1968 at Stanford” (med.stanford.edu). So even though Shumway was the “god Father” of transplantation he didn’t do his first successful transplant until after Christiaan Bernard. iii. SUB-POINT #3: You would need a heart transplant if your heart is failing and there are no other treatments that are working. This can include heart attacks, Viral infections of the heart muscle, alcoholism and drug abuse.

TRANSITION: next in going to be talking about Coronary Artery Bypass

MAIN POINT #2: Coronary Artery Bypass grafting or CABG is another one of the most common cardiac surgeries done on adults.

i. SUB-POINT #1: this is where they remove an artery from either the chest, arm or wrist and re-attach it to a part of the heart to create a different route for blood to get to the heart and the rest of the body. This happens because there is plaque buildup in the arteries and the blood can’t get through. This technique is usually done by stopping the heart.

1. SUB-SUB POINT #1: the first bypass grafting was performed on May 2nd, 1960 at Albert Einstein college of medicine hospital center. According to National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the “surgeon will make an incision (cut) down the center of your chest. He or she will cut your chest bone and open your rib cage to reach your heart” (www.nhlbi.nih.gov). ii. SUB-POINT #2: in the united states, the average cost of the surgery and hospitalization is a little more than 75,000 dollars. Most people spend about 5 days total in the hospital. That’s about 15,000 dollars a day. iii. SUB-POINT #3: CABG is used if you have coronary heart disease, if this isn’t fixed it can lead to a heart attack. This can also help treat percutaneous coronary intervention or known as coronary