Mini invasive cardiac surgery program in low resource setting is it worth the pain
Joint Event on 3rd World Congress on Cardiology & 16th International Conference on Nutrition and Fitness
October 29-30, 2018 | London, UK
Ravi Baral
Tribhuwan University, Nepal
Scientific Tracks Abstracts : J Nutr Hum Health
Abstract:
Background: Mini-invasive cardiac surgery has become a routine
in most centres worldwide but still is not much popular in our
part of world in view of high cost involved. Suture less heart
valve and mini invasive instruments costs have become a most
limiting factor for use of mini-thoracotomy in heart surgeries.
We in our center have reexplored use of the conventional valve
and instruments to start mini invasive heart surgery and staged
procurement of the instruments for the sustainability and cost
effectiveness of the program.
Method: It is a review of a prospectively collected data of patient
undergoing Minimal invasive heart surgery over three years
period. We have done over hundred cases of mini ASD repair,
used conventional mechanical heart valve in aortic and mitral
position.
Result: Total 120 ASD closure has been performed from right
anterior mini thoracotomy over three years. We have performed
30 cases of AVR in over 18 months period and we have recently
started MVR from mini thoracotomy approach and had
performed 1 MVR. We have used slightly bigger thoracotomy of
8 cm length to begin with the use of conventional instruments,
later changed with smaller incision of 5cm. Average aortic cross
clamp time and pump run was 30 minutes and 43 minutes for
ASD, 67 minutes and 92 minutes for AVR and 96 minutes and 145
minutes. One of the AVR patient got reexplored from the same
incision for bleeding, 5 patients had peripheral cannulation site
complications. Our hospital has recently procured a set of mini
invasive instruments and our program will become viable as
more and more colleagues are interested in performing mini
invasive heart surgery.
Conclusion: Mini invasive heart surgery is feasible with conventional
instruments and conventional valve. For the viable mini invasive
program institutional commitment in terms of infrastructure
development and expertise development is the prime.
Biography:
Ravi Baral is a young and vibrant cardiac surgeon working in a position of an assistant professor of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, in the university hospital. He has completed his Mch in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery in the year 2015. He has a special interest in aortic surgery and mini-invasive cardiac surgery. He has performed more than 60 cases of mini atrial septal defect surgeries before moving into more complex valvular surgeries through a mini-invasive approach.
E-mail: ravi.baral4@gmail.com
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