Heart Stents and their Risks

Heart Stents and their Risks

Why do doctors kill and abandon thousands of people a year for everything? How can doctors even convince patients to sign up for a procedure that is risky without any benefits?

Millions of people are taking stable coronary artery disease (CAD) stents, but we know that angioplasty and stent placement actually prevent heart attacks, does not provide relief for long-term angina pain, or improve the survival of such patients. why? The most dangerous plaques – the ones most vulnerable to rupture and erosion – keep in subsequent cardiac events, that is, heart attacks, because doctors do not have a stent in place. Not even what is commonly seen on angiography as interfering with blood flow. Therefore, we need to avoid “therapeutic fantasies” that “achieves accomplish more than the evidence suggests.” “Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) looks great. Angioplasty and stents open up the blood flow again, but why do you do that if the PCI is not really useful?

We’re not even talking about billions of dollars wasted. Thin blood drugs that need to be placed and taken stents can cause complications, including heart failure, stroke and death, but the risk is relatively low. There is less than 1% chance that a PCI will kill you or trace you on stroke, and the 15% risk of a heart attack only occurs in the short term, if the stent is clogged late in the first place, which will only occur about 1% in the short term. However, there is a 13% chance of kidney damage due to the dye that needs to be injected, but it usually heals on its own. The most serious complications, like death, occur in only about one in 150 cases, but it requires hundreds of thousands of steps that take place each year.

In an emergency environment, angioplasty can be life-saving during a heart attack, but these hundreds of thousands of procedures are performed due to stable coronary artery disease. Therefore, doctors kill and abandon thousands of people a year without doing anything. And it doesn’t even count the tens of thousands of silent ministrokes that could contribute to the cognitive decline caused by these procedures. 11-17% of people experiencing angioplasty or stenting remove new brain lesions as in my video there is a risk of a cardiac stent at 2:16, as follows: That’s about 1 in 6 people.

How would a doctor persuade me to sign up for a PCI if it doesn’t reduce the risk of death or heart attack? Apparently, “to not provide long-term symptom relief by failing to reduce the risk of death or MI (myocardial infarction or heart attack) or conveniently notifying patients that the benefits of the symptom are gone after 5 years.

Cardiologists know how little they are, but they have “consistently demonstrated” that patients believe stents reduce the risk of heart attacks and death. Over 70% of patients mistakenly believed that the stent would either extend lifespan or prevent future heart attacks. Therefore, this study was conducted to understand why patients overestimate these benefits. Where do they get these wild ideas? The answer is that many patients are kept in the dark. Doctors who exaggerate their benefits and keep risk modest can put pressure on patients on procedures that do not benefit their way of thinking. why? Well, one reason may be because the doctor may be paid per procedure. “Current reimbursements support procedures for medication and lifestyle changes, and refunds may affect physician recommendations,” doctors are paid more for stent delivery than they recommend common sense diet and lifestyle changes.

Patients with stable coronary artery disease undergoing angioplasty and stent placement are often given misinformation about the benefits. Of the 59 conversations recorded between a cardiologist and her patients, only two arguments include all seven elements of informed decision-making. Enthralled by people with options, explain the problem, discuss alternatives, advantages and disadvantages, inform patients of the procedures, ask if they understand, ask questions, ask what they want to do. Only 3% of doctor-patient discussions about stents were hit with just these basic elements! And this is when “the doctors and patients knew they were being documented, and that could affect their behavior. If so, this is likely to represent the best case scenario for these doctors.” Only 3%! When it comes to angioplasty and stents, quoting from the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, “True informed consent rarely occurs.”

Of the nearly 1,000 patients surveyed at 10 academic and community hospitals in the United States, only 1% knew the truth. Surprisingly, some people blame patients for saying that they are “generally overestimating or misunderstanding” or that they believe that palliative chemotherapy provides the possibility of treatment, or “therapeutic misunderstanding.”

“Why is it incomplete because so many patients have procedures that benefit you, so don’t look at the patients to find a reason. Instead, look at the doctor’s motivation… I think patients have a life-saving procedure because they want the healthcare professional to believe this is.” Now, 95% of cardiologists are lying to their patients, not saying that it reduces their risk. They just happen to omit these details. However, “i)n lack of opposition information, most patients and some doctors assume that PCI is biased towards saving lives and choosing it. As a result, patients rarely give true informed consent to get PCI.”

Why do they assume that? Many people have the wild concept of “personal care,” so the only first duty of a doctor is the patient’s happiness, isn’t that naive? “Even if there is no information or the opposite evidence is presented, patients tend to believe that the treatment provided is beneficial.”

That’s true, even if you explicitly tell the patient that the stent does not reduce the risk of a heart attack. That misconception can be dispelled to many people “with relatively little effort, just two lines of text.” However, many participants continued to believe that angioplasty and stents prevent heart attacks. After all, why are doctors pushing them if they don’t help? That’s a good question. This will be explained next.

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