[HSF] MV Repair Failure

[Michael Firstenberg]

For me (us) - DC to rehab usually means some type of skilled nursing
facility - with services that reflect the needs of the patient.

Spectrum:
Out-patient rehab ---- home, going to a nearby place to get a little extra
physical therapy/tune-up
LTAC --- Long Term Acute Care Facilty
   typically for PEG/Trach/Dialysis disasters.

I would say only about 2/3 of our patients get discharged to home.......
fortunately most make it home at some point.

What do you do with those patients whose families can not (will not?
unable?) take them home?

-michael


On 9/2/07, psimha <prasannasimha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hal,
> I am not familiar with the system - what exactly does "went to rehab"
> mean - do they go to some other rehabilitation hospital or some nursing
> home or home and attend a rehabilitation/physiotherapy clinic ? (For us
> discharge can only be discharge to home or up into heaven !!)
> Prasanna
> Hgrmd at aol.com wrote:
> > Ben,
> >   Not only does the repair of IMR MR have inferior long term results
> > compared to Barlow's and FED, but so does pure annular dilatation
> from  nonischemic
> > cardiomyopathies.  I would also expect that Barlow's would hold  up
> better than
> > FED.  To me, it's all a matter of the amount of tissue  available to
> cover
> > the hole.  That's one of the reasons I currently rarely  resect prolapse
> with
> > FED.
> >   BTW, that lady with the failed Geoform I posted a couple of weeks  ago
> went
> > to rehab last Thursday.  I'm hopeful that her IMR ETlogix ring  will
> serve
> > her well.
> >
> > Hal
> >
> >
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