PANAJI: The Cardiology department at Victor Hospital provides end-to-end Cardiac care which has a team of Cardiologists, Cardiac Surgeons & Cardiac anaesthetist. The Cardiology department at Victor Hospital is headed by Dr. Shanmukh Hiremath a full-time Consultant and Cardiothoracic, Vascular & Transplant Surgeon. More than 1500 heart surgeries have been performed by Dr. Hiremath with over a 99% success rate. The department is dedicated to tackle cases of Aneurysms, Arterial blocks, Peripheral Vascular blocks, etc, states a press release.
Recently, a 62-year-old male walked into Victor Hospital’s emergency with acute chest pain which was central, radiating to the left arm and crushing in nature and was experiencing a heart attack with critical blocks in his heart. Generally after a heart attack, the heart becomes very weak and usually surgeon doesn’t perform surgery on a weak heart. Patient has to wait a minimum of 3 weeks to undergo the required surgery. But in this case the ECG was changing because blocks were persisting despite medication to break the clots threatening to cause another heart attack which could prove fatal.
Dr. Shanmukh Hiremath decided to go ahead with a bypass surgery to prevent further heart damage & preserve heart function. The patient also had diabetes, high blood pressure & hypothyroidism. During the surgery he found the heart was very weak suffering with grossly reduced function. Doctor did the bypass surgery on a beating heart with arterial & venous grafts and treated the patient with optimal medications. As surgery was done on beating heart patient recovered soon and was breathing on his own & was removed from ventilator soon after surgery.
Dr. Shanmukh Hiremath advises that especially after the age of 40 and with family history patients with diabetes, hypertension should have periodic heart checkups specifically checking Cholesterol and other fat levels. Several health conditions, lifestyle, age and family history can increase risk for heart disease, these are called risk factors. At least 3 key risks are high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and smoking. Some risk factors cannot be controlled, such as age and family history. But steps can be taken to lower risk by changing the factors which can be controlled.
Victor Hospital is empanelled with Deen Dayal Swasthya Seva Yojana (DDSSY) and is empanelled with all major insurances. For more information and queries, contact on 7722098454.
