lived experience of TAVI

[VirtualLife]

Based on my recent lived experience of TAVI whilst the clinical procedure was minimally invasive the psychological trauma is extremely traumatic. Communication with patients was abysmal and MDT was a misnomer because the team was entirely cardiology based.

[santino44]

'Minimally invasive' TAVI procedure as stated but in agreement that shared decision making along with your preferences and wishes could have been better. I did not have all this with my Out of Hospital Cardiac arrest along with 2 weeks in a induced coma and discharged with a dianogsis of Heart Failure and ICD implanted with a leaking Mitral Valve grade 1 so all good, I did not have the opportunity to speak to the surgeons & medical staff but greatful for keeping me alive.