Salem Hospital is ranked number 1, in Oregon, for Cardiac Surgery in 2007. Our Open Heart Surgery Program is run by a team of physicians and related specialists dedicated to caring for your open-heart surgical needs.
Our exceptional open-heart surgery team is led by Thomas Winkler, MD and William Shely, MD of Northwest Surgical Associates and is committed to the highest quality patient care and services.
We are equipped with the latest surgical technology so that our patients can benefit from the most advanced treatment available.
A coronary artery bypass (CABG) is the most commonly performed open-heart surgery, with more than 425,000 performed annually in the United States(2004).
A CABG is an operation that is designed to re-route the blood around blockages to prevent a heart attack or sudden death. Conventionally an artery from behind the breast bone, and veins from the legs are used to "bypass" the blood around the coronary artery blockages.
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