{"id":1278991,"date":"2023-11-29T15:18:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1278991"},"modified":"2023-12-01T04:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T10:11:33","slug":"longview-surgeon-named-to-beating-heart-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1278991","title":{"rendered":"Longview surgeon named to Beating Heart Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/Jayakarwithaward-200x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1278997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/Jayakarwithaward-200x168.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/Jayakarwithaward-415x350.jpg 415w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/Jayakarwithaward-175x147.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/Jayakarwithaward.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Longview Regional Medical said Tuesday that one of their cardiovascular surgeons was named to the Diamond Level of the Beating Heart Hall of Fame. According to our news partner KETK,  Dr. David Jayakar with the cardiovascular team at the Heart and Vascular Institute at Longview Regional Medical is the 47th person in the U.S, but the  first in East Texas, to achieve this level. Dr Jayakar completed more than 1,100 off-pump coronary artery bypass procedures, according to the hospital.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When told of  the honor,  Jayakar said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am truly honored to receive the Heartbeat Hall of Fame Award. Beating heart surgeries have the potential to transform the lives of patients in need of cardiac intervention. I am grateful for the opportunity to offer beating heart surgery here in East Texas.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  The hospital explained in a press release, that beating heart surgery or off-pump surgery is a relatively new technique that reduces surgical risk by heart procedures without stopping the hart or putting the patient on a heart-lung machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Longview Regional Medical said Tuesday that one of their cardiovascular surgeons was named to the Diamond Level of the Beating Heart Hall of Fame. According to our news partner KETK, Dr. David Jayakar with the cardiovascular team at the Heart and Vascular Institute at Longview Regional Medical is the 47th person in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1278991\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview surgeon named to Beating Heart Hall of Fame<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1279003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/Jayakarwithaward-200x168.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Longview surgeon named to Beating Heart Hall of Fame","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 03:39:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/Jayakarwithaward-200x168.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Longview surgeon named to Beating Heart Hall of Fame","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1278991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279002,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278991\/revisions\/1279002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1279003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1278991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1278991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1278991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}