PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, Feb 19: For the first time five back-to-back surgeries have been successfully conducted in a span of one week since the commissioning of the operation theatre in 2018 in the Cardio-Thoracic Vascular Surgery (CTVS) department of RIMS.
The ongoing week has added a new chapter in the history of the medical college where five back-to-back surgeries were conducted and for the first time, both the operation theatres were used on Friday.
19-year-old Kajal Kumari, a resident of Giridih; 42-year-old Pinky Pandey, a resident of Jamshedpur; 36-year-old Rewati Raman Pandey, a resident of Ranchi; 40-year-old Kishore Rana, a resident of Hazaribagh and 15-year-old Kairi Ho, a resident of East Singhbhum got a fresh lease of life due to the active approach of the CTVS department.
Dr Rakesh Kumar Choudhary said that for the first time both the operation theatres were used wherein OT-1 Kairi Ho was operated and at the same time Kishore Rana was operated in OT-2.
“The era has begun where more than one surgery can be conducted in a day in the CTVS department. Only OT-1 has the heart-lung machine which is used in the open-heart surgery and in the other OT due to the absence of the heart-lung machine normal surgery can be conducted,” Dr Choudhary said.
On Monday, 19-year-old Kajal Kumari who was suffering from severe Mitral Regurgitation with moderate Mitral Stenosis and severe pulmonary arterial hypertension was operated through open-heart surgery.
On Tuesday, 42-year-old Pinky Pandey, who had ASD closure for a hole in the heart was operated through minimally invasive heart surgery.
On Thursday, 36-year-old Rewati Raman Pandey, who had valve leakage with only 30% of the heart being functional was operated through open-heart surgery.
On Friday, two surgeries were conducted, one on 15-year-old Kairi Ho who was suffering from Rheumatic heart disease with a leaking heart valve and 40-year-old Kishore Rana who had vascular swelling in his right forearm.
“Kairi Ho was operated by changing the Mitral Valve which was the second mitral valve repair at RIMS, but first without any help of faculty from outside. Earlier, in March 2019, when we did the second open heart surgery workshop in RIMS in collaboration with Professor Devguru, AIIMS, New Delhi, we repaired the mitral valve of a 25-year-old Palamu patient,” Dr Choudhary said.
Talking about the patients Dr Choudhary said that all the patients are doing well and are recovering fast. Two patients Pinky and Kishore are being discharged today.
“With the existing infrastructure we have performed difficult surgeries which are only possible in the top-notch hospitals of the country but now it has now become possible in the RIMS also. The time has come when no patients of Jharkhand will have to travel and go to any other hospitals for cardiothoracic surgery,” Dr Choudhary added.
“All open-heart surgeries and vascular surgeries were successful. For the first time in the history of RIMS, we did four successful open-heart surgeries and one complex vascular surgery in five days on our own. On 2 February 2019, under the guidance of Professor Anand Mishra of PGI Chandigarh, who hails from Jharkhand, we started open heart surgery by conducting the first workshop on open-heart surgery in RIMS. Today, even after suffering three bites of corona in just three years, we have set a new record by doing more than 150 successful open-heart surgeries. Apart from this, after coming back from AIIMS New Delhi on 1st July of 2017, we have brought laurels to the state and RIMS by performing thousands of rare lung, vascular and closed heart surgeries, and made a mark for ourselves. RIMS is the only government institute in Eastern India in which Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgery are done simultaneously. This happened only because of team spirit and respect for each other,” Dr Choudhary further added.
CTVS was started at RIMS in 2012 but many doctors who had joined the department left the institute due to infrastructural shortcomings. In 2017, Dr Rakesh Choudhary and Dr Anshul Kumar joined as a faculty after which the operation theatre was commissioned in October 2018 which opened the doors for vascular surgeries in the department. However, the first open-heart surgery was conducted in February 2019 when doctors of CTVS along with the assistance of two experts from PGI Chandigarh conducted the first open-heart surgery.
