By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 18th September:- Ivy Hospital, Mohali on Wednesday announced introduction of an
internationally endorsed ‘heart team approach’ in the management of complex heart and vascular diseases.
Addressing a press conference at
Chandigarh Press Club today, Dr. Japnit Singh, Director stated that this
concept is gaining popularity all over the world to provide holistic and
ethically correct treatment to patients suffering from various cardio vascular
diseases.
Dr. Harinder Singh Bedi, director
cardio vascular endovascular & thoracic sciences at Ivy Hospital, Mohali
said that the management of complex cardiovascular disease has changed with the
development of new strategies of care.
Dr H S Bedi said further that
applying all the scientific information and making it useful for the patient
and family have assumed central importance. He informed that to facilitate this
process of patient centric evidence-based care, a multidisciplinary heart team
has been setup at Ivy.
The objective of the team is to
provide patient-centric care where family and the patients can participate in
decisions. All the alternative options of treatment are discussed in the
presence of family and the outcome of each approach is also discussed to
understand the expectations. The final treatment will only be given once the
family and team take the final decision, he explained.
The team will consist of Dr H S Bedi,
Dr Ankur Ahuja and Dr Amit Gupta both invasive cardiologists, Dr Jiten Singh
the cardiac surgeon and Dr Vikram Arora cardiac anesthetist. They all in combined
have a vast experience of over 80-yr of cardiac patient care.
Talking about the benefits of
concept, Dr Ankur Ahuja and Dr Amit Gupta –both cardiologists said that not one
but a team consisting of all the experts decide a best line of treatment. The
family would also save crucial time which would otherwise be wasted running
from one doctor to another. The team applies scientific criteria to decide on
line of treatment based on medical guidelines to reach on a treatment option,
they asserted.
Dr H S Bedi has worked at the
Escorts Heart Institute New Delhi and the St Vincents Hospital in Sydney. He
was the senior most cardiac surgeon in the startup of the flagship Fortis Hospital.
He holds the Limca Book of World Records distinction in starting the first
series of multivessel beating heart surgery and a number of innovations in
cardiac and vascular surgery. He hasa been honoured with various
awards by the Punjab Chief Minister and the Union Health Minister. He is a
member of the prestigious Society of Thoracic Surgeons USA and is the founder
President and Patron of the North Zone Association of Cardiac Surgeons.
Dr. Ankur Ahuja, MD, DM, FISC, He
did his DM from prestigious KGMU, Lakhnow and did further training in
Interventional Cardiology from Escort hospital, Delhi. He is proficient in
complex coronary interventions (Including radial primary angioplasties) &
peripheral Interventions (Critical limb ischemia, EVAR, Carotid, angioplasties,
etc.).
Dr. Amit Gupta, Senior cardiologist
and Fellow European society of cardiology, Worked at Apollo hospital LDH and
Max Hospital Mohali before joining IVY Hospital Mohali
Dr Jiten Singh has worked earlier
at the Fortis Heart and in Australia. Dr Vikram Arora is an experienced Senior
Consultant in cardiac Anesthesia. Dr Sanjeev Mittal is an expert in
non invasive Cardiology.
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