Sternum Healing & Sternal Infection Rates After Heart Surgery with Dr. Steve Bolling

For patients having open heart surgery through sternal incisions, patients often have questions about the healing of the chest plate. For this reason, I interviewed Dr. Steven Bolling at the Heart Valve Summit to learn important details about sternum healing and sternal infection rates after heart surgery. So you know, Dr. Bolling is the Director of the Mitral Valve Program at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Bolling has invented several devices for heart surgery including a retractor that is used during sternotomy procedures. (Video posted on May 18, 2018)