Antonyms for open-heart surgeryopen-heart sur·ge·ry

Princeton's WordNet

1. open-heart surgerynoun

   heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired

How to use open-heart surgery in a sentence?

1. Meiram Bendat:

   Imagine someone going to a hospital and being told you can't get open-heart surgery in the midst of a heart attack because you haven't tried aspirin or nitroglycerin first. That's the absurdity of it, it's just a way to discourage higher levels of care that we would never tolerate in the non-psychiatric context.

2. Mia Gonzalez:

   We freaked out to go from thinking she had asthma to being told she needed to have open heart surgery.

3. David Ferguson:

   He got led down a path wherethey had to stop doingprocedures where they said hewas qualified nonetheless forthe heart transplant.But he had to get the vaccine inorder to get that transplant.He’s deteriorated so much soquickly that they had to resort to open-heart surgery and doing the LVAD [left ventricular assist device] mechanical pump, so now my boy has a pump, he’s inrecovery.He went through seven hours ofsurgery.

4. Frank Meza:

   He wanted to come back after open heart surgery and prove them wrong.

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