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John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus and John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek Campus have performed many of these heart surgeries.

In addition to offering a full range of traditional cardiac surgeries, John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek Campus and John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus cardiac surgeons were among the first in the area to perform beating heart surgery — an advanced cardiac surgery technique in which cardiac bypass surgery is performed while the patient's heart continues to beat. This allows the surgeons to operate without placing the patient on the cardiopulmonary bypass system used in conventional cardiac surgeries.

Advanced minimally invasive valve replacement surgery is also performed at both medical centers using a small incision through the breastbone. Patients undergoing advanced minimally invasive cardiac bypass or valve replacement surgery are able to return to their normal activities more rapidly, have less scarring and pain, and a shorter hospitalization following surgery than with other conventional open heart surgeries.

(925) 947-4452 - John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek Campus
(925) 674-2387 - John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus

Written by:

Horatio Asbun, M.D.
Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery Programs
John Muir Health

Jacklyn J. Schuchardt, RN, MSN, CNOR
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Surgery
John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek Campus
Walnut Creek, California

Diane M.Graham, RN, MSN, CNOR
Perioperative Clinical Nurse Specialist, John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus, Concord, CA