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Mary Lou Davis, an active 68-year-old, thought she’d pulled a muscle in her chest when she awoke feeling sore one February morning. What she didn’t know yet was that in a few days she’d have life-saving robotic-assisted heart surgery at Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute.

00:00 Introduction: Life in Grand Haven
00:11 A Winter Escape to the Keys
00:21 Unexpected Health Scare
00:37 Diagnosis and Immediate Action
01:03 Robotic Heart Surgery Explained
01:38 The Miracle of Modern Medicine
02:04 Comparing Surgical Options
02:44 A New Lease on Life
03:09 Building a Robotic Surgery Team

[Transcript]
[Mary Lou Davis] I live in Grand Haven, Michigan. My friends are all my age. We're all retired, all trying to figure out the retirement stage, trying to stay active. And in the winter months, that's hard up there because it's cold. My girlfriend who owns a home down in the Keys, she said, "Would you wanna come for the winter and stay at my house with me?" And I was like, "Uh, yes, that sounds wonderful." And Saturday morning, I said, "Did I pull a muscle?" It was just an odd feeling. There was quite a familial history of heart issues in my family, but I didn't even think this was heart when this event happened to me because I think if my heart is here, but it was up here that I had the pain. I just went to the local med center down at Fishermen's Hospital in the Keys, the doctor there, "And I'm sending you in an ambulance to Miami." They wheeled me in to get a stent and then he immediately wheeled me right back out. I was diagnosed with ischemic heart disease. I can't do a stent. "You need a bypass surgery. Your blockage is in the widowmaker artery and it's too lengthy." And Dr. Hashimoto had to perform robotic heart surgery. [Hashimoto, M.D.] We met at the hospital. She had a severe coronary artery disease at the most important coronary artery called left anterior descending artery. And we decided to treat the artery surgically. So typically, the surgery, the robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass grafting itself takes like two hours to two and a half hours. So it's not that long surgery. And we only need to place three holes in the left chest cavity and one small incision here at the left anterior chest wall. So it is a minimally invasive procedure.

And what amazed me is they wheeled me into the surgery room and they said, "You're gonna be over here on the table and Dr. Hashimoto's gonna be over here at a computer doing the surgery." I couldn't believe that it was a possible thing to be across the room from your surgeon. It was surprising, but I also felt safe or like I was where I should be and with the people I should be. Technology and what these doctors today can do, what Dr. Hashimoto did for me saved my life.

So there are two options. Conventional stereotactic surgery, which we have to cut the bone here, which will be a very invasive surgery, has, you know, greater risk compared with the robotic, the mini invasive surgeries. Usually the patient go back to home on day three. The patient can get back to their normal daily activity quickly than the conventional surgery. Usually takes a month or two months.

I was walking within a day, my surgery was Friday, and I said to them on Saturday, "I'm hoping I can be released tomorrow because I wanna get home on Sunday to watch the Super Bowl." He's such an expert in his field. I wake up with such gratitude pretty much every morning immediately for Dr. Hashimoto because it's all just such a miracle because I could totally not be here. I mean, I'm the luckiest person in the world that I found these doctors at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute that saved my life. I have such an even new lease on life. One last chapter of fun, of things I can do. I have confidence in my health. I feel great.

My primary goal is to build a experienced robotic cardiac surgery team here at Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute. Like, it's my great honor to, you know, provide my expertise to all patient and I'm so happy to help patient here in South Florida.