Beating heart surgery revives 88-year-old
Saturday, June 14, 2003
Shiv Prasad Vashist was in a precarious condition. This 88-year-old retired principal of a
post-graduate college, had a serious heart ailment with blocked arteries due to which his heart rate
had dropped to an alarmingly low level, thus proving to be life threatening.
Dr. H.S. Bedi, chief cardiac surgeon at Metro Heart Institute, in consultation with chief
cardiologist Dr. Purshottam Lal, decided to perform a bypass surgery.
However, as the patient was old and was suffering from paralysis on his left side as well as a
preexisting damage of the right side of the brain, the risk of a conventional surgery was very high.
A beating heart surgery was to be performed by Bedi, a pioneer in the technique and also holding
world records for having performed the first series of multi-vessel beating heart surgeries. Vashist
underwent bypass on a beating heart and had a quick recovery.
Explained the heart specialist, ''The recovery from the surgery is very quick, blood usage is
brought down to near zero and there is no damage to the brain, heart or lungs as would happen in
conventional surgery.''
- V K
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