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| Fortis Escorts Hospital develops new cardiac bypass techniques | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 29- As heart ailments are rapidly increasing particularly among the persons between the age of 45 - 55 year, Cardiac surgery team of Fortis Escorts Hospital, Amritsar has developed new cardiac bypass techniques to benefit patients.
This was disclosed by Chief Cardiac Surgeon of the Fortis Escorts Hospital, Amritsar, Dr Pankaj Goel while addressing a press conference here today.
Although Indian Cardiac surgeons have vast experience with cardiac surgery as thousands of such operations are done annually in India, the technique has largely remained static at most centres, he said, adding the procedure is often carried out with the assistance of heart lung machine, patient has to be on ventilator post operative, requires multiple blood transfusions and the patient is hospitalized for 10 to 12 days. The grating of vessels is also done with vein grafts which have shorter life span thus reducing the longevity of the operation.
"I along with my cardiac surgery team at Fortis Escorts Hospital has been able to challenge this conventional way of carrying out bypass surgery and put to practice many new techniques that have increased the patients comfort during the surgery and helped them increase the life span of the operation", Dr Goel claimed, adding "we are adopting a technique which uses all arterial grafts to bypass diseased arteries of the heart as against usual practice of using venous grafts".
In this technique, unlike the routine bypass no veins are used from the legs. Only arteries are utilized which are taken from behind the chest wall and the arms, Dr Goel elaborated, adding this gives many advantages to the patient in increasing the life of the grafts by at least 40 to 50 per cent over the regular technique of venous grafts. This technique is especially beneficial for those young patients who are required bypass surgery in their early 50s.
The cardiac surgery and cardiac anesthesia team has also adopted a new technique known as BIS which helps in giving only very small required dose of anesthesia. The patient is put on ventilator only during the surgery and taken of it immediately after the surgery in the operation theatre itself. He claimed that Fortis Escorts is the only hospital in the region which is using such monitoring system.
To a question, he said specialists of Fortis are available for OPD at Rotary Bhawan, Gandhi Nagar Jammu.
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