How long are you in the hospital after getting a stent?

How long are you in the hospital after getting a stent?

Recovery from angioplasty and stenting is typically brief. Discharge from the hospital is usually 12 to 24 hours after the catheter is removed. Many patients are able to return to work within a few days to a week after a procedure.

How soon after stent can you go home?

If you had a planned (non-emergency) coronary angioplasty, you should be able to return to work after a week. However, if you’ve had an emergency angioplasty following a heart attack, it may be several weeks or months before you recover fully and are able to return to work.

How long is hospital stay after angioplasty?

Once you leave the hospital, your post-procedure care will involve taking the prescribed medications and making some important lifestyle changes. The general angioplasty recovery time is about two weeks, but this can change based on your condition.

What to expect after having a stent put in?

The doctor may have placed a small tube, called a stent, in the artery. Your groin or arm may have a bruise and feel sore for a day or two after the procedure. You can do light activities around the house. But don’t do anything strenuous for a day or two.

How long do you have to take blood thinners after a stent?

A drug regimen of clopidogrel plus aspirin is advised for one month for patients with bare metal stents and for six to 12 months in patients with a so-called drug-eluting stent, which is coated with medication to help prevent the artery from becoming blocked again.

Can you feel a stent in your heart?

Will I feel the stent? No. You will not feel the stent inside of you. (Though you will probably feel better after it has been implanted and blood flow in your coronary artery has been restored.)

What is the best blood thinner after stent?

After drug-eluting stent placement, you need to take aspirin and a stronger prescription blood thinner such as clopidogrel (Plavix) to prevent blood clotting in the stent. You may need to take a daily aspirin for the rest of your life.

How often do people go home after stenting?

Rao and his colleagues examined data from more than 100,000 non-emergency stenting procedures, done to open up narrowed coronary arteries, in adults age 65 and older. Just over one percent of those patients went home the same day as the procedure.

How long does it take to recover from a heart stent?

In general, you can expect to return to work and normal activities in as few as three days. However, heart stent recovery time varies widely from person to person.

When do you go home after an interventional procedure?

An interventional procedure is a non-surgical treatment used to open narrowed coronary arteries to improve blood flow to the heart. You may be able to go home the same day as your procedure. Otherwise, you will spend the night in the hospital and go home the next day.

What to expect after angioplasty and stent insertion?

Expect to feel tired and weak the day after the procedure. Stand up slowly to avoid getting dizzy. Take walks around your house and plan to rest during the day. Do not strain during bowel movements for 3 to 4 days after the procedure. This helps to prevent bleeding from the catheter insertion site.