The 54-year-old black woman presented for reop coronary artery bypass grafting due to recurrent substernal chest pain approximately four months after her bypass surgery. Under general endotracheal anesthesia coronary artery bypass grafting times three was performed. The right internal mammary artery was grafted to the first diagonal as well as saphenous vein graft to the left anterior descending, the old obtuse marginal graft, and the second diagonal. The patient was found to have dense cardiac adhesions. Postoperatively the patient's course was unremarkable and she required sodium Nitroprusside in the immediate postoperative period. At the time of dictation, one day prior to proposed discharge, the patient's chest x-ray showed some improved aeration of that lower lobe. The patient will be discharged to home with medications of Atenolol 50 mg po q d, baby aspirin one po q d, Diabinese 500 mg po q d, iron sulfate 325 mg po tid, Colace, and Percocet. She will follow-up with Dr. Rory Broadnax in four to five weeks and with private medical doctor and cardiologist in one to two weeks. The patient will also have visiting nurse come in to check on her in the immediate postoperative period.
diabinese
Diabinese 500 mg po q d,