Solving the Mysteries of Heart Disease describes the lifelong journey of a world-renowned cardiac surgeon and researcher whose discoveries have already saved the lives of millions of patients with heart disease—and have the potential to help millions more worldwide. This is a story of triumph over formidable odds and initial failures. Yet many of these breakthroughs are being ignored by the medical establishment. Based on his distinguished 50 years of research and practice, Dr. Buckberg reveals, in detail, verified treatments for the most prevalent diseases of the heart, the implementation of which would create a revolution in healthcare.
Proven treatments for major cardiac illnesses exist now, but are not being implemented. These include procedures that:
• Avoid heart muscle damage following an acute heart attack
• Reverse congestive heart failure and restore healthy function
• Treat cardiac arrest (sudden death) with an 80% survival rate and rare instances of brain damage.
(This contrasts with the current 10% survival rate, and severe brain damage often occurring in the few survivors.)
• Prevent the large muscle in the middle of the heart (the septum) from being routinely damaged during heart surgery
• Improve pacemaker effectiveness
• Uncover why the helical heart muscle causes normal and abnormal cardiac performance
Starting as a “kid from the Bronx,” Gerald Buckberg has been on an unrelenting personal quest to break down medical barriers, change rigid thinking, and find solutions where none existed before.
Dr. Gerald Buckberg is a Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and has been acknowledged with the highest awards in the field of cardiac surgery. His initial landmark research in blood cardioplegia dramatically increased the safety of open-heart procedures, transforming these formerly high-risk operations into the routine procedures they are today, with over 25,000,000 patients already having benefited. His techniques are used by 85% of cardiac surgeons in the United States, and by 70% of heart surgeons globally.
