A Hyderabad-based Indian cardiac surgeon has achieved a rare global record of conducting 1,500
bypass heart surgeries during the last five years.
Dr Prateek Bhatnagar, Chief Cardiac Surgeon and Managing Director, Beating Heart Clinic, has gained the distinction of biggest series of surgeries by using the beating heart surgery process.
"Beating heart surgery process is far better compared to other forms of surgeries. It not only provides good results and much better than open heart surgery but prevents the
complexities of long stay in hospital," Bhatnagar told reporters here.
The beating heart surgery also helps avoid complications of putting a patient on heart lung machine and prevents kidney strokes and heart attacks during surgery, he said.
The beating heart surgery is done by keeping the heart beating while the surgery is performed. This technique is useful on patients who have to undergo multiple bypass or those who are going in for third time bypass.
This technique can be performed even on patients suffering from lung cancer surgery.
"The beating heart surgery is not only safe but has a success rate of 99.2 per cent," Dr Bhatnagar said, adding, the technique is not being widely practiced in India, as many surgeons are not aware of it.
"Those who are aware of the technique are evincing keen interest in this and currently my institute is imparting technicalities to surgeons," Bhatnagar said.
Dr Bhatnagar said that his clinic has extended this facility to hospitals in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.