PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, Feb 15: The Cardio-Thoracic Vascular Surgery (CTVS) department of RIMS successfully conducted its first minimally invasive heart surgery giving a fresh lease of life to Pinky Pandey (42), a resident of Jamshedpur.
The CTVS department of RIMS has added a new chapter in the history of the hospital by performing minimally invasive heart surgery in just three hours. Pinky Pandey had a hole in her heart which was closed by performing the surgery.
Head of the CTVS department, Dr. Vineet Mahajan said that the patient had ASD closure for a hole in the heart from birth.
“A small incision was made on the right side of the chest to reach the heart and after the heart was stopped for 30 minutes, the hole was closed. The patient was also extubated (taken out of the ventilator) just after the surgery in the operation theatre. In the case of open-heart surgery usually, it takes 1-2 days for the patient to be extubated, but due to a less invasive procedure, it was taken out of the ventilator immediately after the operation, Mahajan said.
According to the doctors, the surgery would have cost Rs. 5-7 lakhs in a private hospital which was done free of cost in the RIMS.
Rajesh Pandey, the husband of the patient, said that they came to know about the hole in the heart at MGM Jamshedpur after which she was referred to RIMS.
“I am very happy that my wife is out of danger now and has been successfully operated on by the doctors of RIMS,” Pandey said.
The doctors involved in the surgery include Dr. Vineet Mahajan (Surgeon), Dr. Anshul Kumar (Surgeon), Dr. Rakesh Kumar Choudhary (Surgeon), Dr. Sheo Priye (Anaesthesiologist), Dr. Nitesh Sinha (Anaesthesiologist), Dr. Mukesh (Anaesthesiologist) and Amit Singh (Perfusionist).
Minimally invasive heart surgery involves making small incisions in the chest to reach the heart between the ribs, rather than cutting through the breastbone, as is done in open-heart surgery.
The potential benefits of minimally invasive heart surgery, when compared with open-heart surgery, can include less blood loss, lower risk of infection, reduced trauma and pain, shorter time in the hospital, faster recovery and quicker return to normal activities and smaller and less noticeable scar.
