Crash Cart Glossary: OHS

So you've found out you/someone you know has a heart problem. Next, you hit the internets and log on to a forum with fellow heart patients/seekers of information on heart problems. And what's the first thing you're hit with? No, not a sense of relief at having found kindred spirits; it's the 'effing frustration at trying to decipher posts filled with countless, I mean countless, abbreviations. Think GenY is bad with the sexting, OMG's, LOL's, and ROFLcopters? You haven't experienced anything till you log onto a heart patient forum. Someone had an OHS for a BAV with an AVR and MVR with a St.Jude and a Ross Procedure? Twice? You have no f*cking clue what that means? Too bad friend, because no-one is going to explain it to you, so take your WTF and move along. 

You see, we heart surgery patients can't fit pictures of our surgical scars into those tiny avatars, plus we'd rather show picture of our cats and/or a margarita, so all these abbreviations are just a sign that we're a member of the club/forum. You get some degree of admission once you understand them, but we aren't going to make it THAT easy. So, having been though a couple of ops, as well as  finally working out what all those damn abbreviations actually mean, I'm going to share them with you.

Here's the first:

OHS: Open Heart Surgery

Yes Veronica, it is like learning a second language.