Sunday 15 May 2022

Starting a new Cardiac Surgery set up

The gratification and satisfaction of starting Heart surgery program post COVID was fraught with fears, apprehension and lot of queries in mind last June,2021. The team getting together, making the new management understand the exclusivities of Cardiac Surgery, training of new inductions all posed a big challenge. Today 9 months later looking back and analysing the zero mortality (100% success) achieved so far does look an uphill task but unimaginable too. There was no morbidity too and average length of stay hovered around 5.5 days. We took acute MI Cabgs, CABG +AVRs, poor lv functions and valve replacement surgeries coming to us in failure with saturations of 82%. Whole credit goes to in depth evaluation, stabilisation preoperatively to optimise for surgery, an intense post operative care by the most experienced team. There were sleepless nights to make patients sleep well and go back home in comfort and smiles on their faces.
I always say Programs are always bigger with teams and not mere buildings. An intentness to treat life and see them as humans surpasses any other expectation and brings laurels to our specialty and the profession.
Kudos to the team and thank God for His Choicest blessings on us and all my patients who showed faith in this new setup and in challenging times. Just to add one of the patients brother-in-law law of a dear family friend had to be induced in his presence in OT as he was jumping out of table being scared though having tight left main stem Coronary artery disease. But his brother-in-law’s presence worked and today he is a confident man riding the lift alone which he was scared to do preoperatively!! 
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