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Monday, Sep 12, 2005
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Health Training centre for beating heart surgery in Hyderabad Our Bureau
Hyderabad, Sept. 11 CARE Hospital has launched India's first beating heart surgery training centre here. Beating heart surgery, a relatively new procedure that replaces the bypass surgery, is currently being done by about 20 per cent of cardiac surgeons. Dr Gopichand Mannam, who will head the training centre, said the procedure cut short the laborious process of opening the chest and using heart-lung machines as they do in the normal bypass surgery. "There is no need for blood transfusion in most cases," he said. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday showing live a beating heart bypass surgery, he said not stopping the heart meant a lot for the patient. "It means less complications to brain, lungs and kidneys," he said. The occasion also marked the completion of 1,000th beating heart surgery by Dr Gopichand's team. Surgeons would use remote control technology and instruments with very small cuts (as small as 7 mm). Dr Gopichand said the training centre, which would train one student at a time, would help young surgeons learn the technique. Seniors had the luxury of using the procedure on patients directly as they could switch over to the normal procedure, if need be. But the young doctors did not have this luxury due to lack of enough experience. The three-week training schedule included training on a `virtual heart' (a trademark product of Chamberlain of the US). "They can perform beating heart surgery on this virtual heart any number of times," he said. The students would then use the technique on animals and, then, finally join the experts to do the procedure on human beings. The equipment per procedure would cost Rs 60,000.
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