The Department of Cardiovascular Surgery having performed 300 Open Heart surgeries in the very first calendar year of the hospital is a symbol of our relentless pursuit towards lowering the burden of cardiac related ailments of the society.

Facilities:

In adherence to world-class standards, the operation theatres have been equipped with:

- Stainless steel walls & fibre glass flooring

- Laminar flow air-conditioning through 0.5 micron hepa filters providing 32 air
changes every hour

- Computerised Stockert-Shiley heart-lung machine from Germany

- Advanced Astivfs-5 anesthesia machine

- Suspended surgical pendants to accommodate high-end Diathermy machines,
Defibrillators, etc.

- Complete Endoscopic equipment including Sony 1000 lines monitor and 3 chip
camera from Richard Wolff

- Clearglide Accel Endoscopic vessel harvesting system including precision bipolar
Harmonic Scalpel from Ethicon (J&J)

- KAAT-2+ Intra Aortic Balloon Pump machine from Arrow International Inc. USA

- Harmonic Scalpel

Cardiovascular Surgeries:

- Open Heart Surgery
- Coronary Bypass Surgery
- Valve Replacement and Repair
- ASD & VSD Closure and Congenital Intrfs-cardiac Repair
- Closed Heart Surgery
- Beating Heart Surgery
- Aortic & Peripheral Vascular Surgeries
- Carotid Artery Surgery
- Surgeries using Retrograde Cardioplegia.

Achievements:

- Over 1000 Open Heart Surgeries performed within the first two years

- By-Pass surgeries on patients having on going heart attacks & heart failure with
success

- Rarely performed high-risk surgeries - VSD hole in the heart after MI (heart attack)
on a patient in CCF (failure)

- Multiple valve changes with associated VSD (hole in heart)

- Paediatric Cardiac Surgeries

Faculty:

Dr. Nagendra Prakash M.S., FIACS - View Profile
Dr. Upendra Shenoy M.S., MCh - View Profile
Dr. K.M.Srinivasmurthy MS - View Profile