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Minimal invasive surgery has become popular among Indian surgeons as well. It is also popularly known as the ‘keyhole surgery,’ cardio thoracic surgeon Dr A G K Gokhale at Global Hospital is perhaps among the first in the state or even in the country to do multiple bypass surgeries on a 45- year-old male patient using the minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery.
Doctors, led by Dr Jayaraman, a Chicago-based world renowned cardio thoracic surgeon, doing key hole surgeries for valve replacements and multiple grafts, performed the surgery successfully on a 45-year-old male using this technology.
Later, addressing the media Dr K Ravindranath Chairman, Global Hospitals Dr A G K Gokhale, Chief Consultant Cardio Thoracic Surgeon Global hospitals and Dr Jayaraman from Chicago explained that bypass is a common procedure done by cutting the chest bone and doing a long incision of at least 25 centimeters which is a very painful procedure and cosmetically unaesthetic.
But now using keyhole surgery or minimal invasive surgery wherein an incision of less than 5 centimeters is done and using special instruments multiple bypass grafts can be performed thus saving a patient from the hospital stay with less pain and also allowing him to be back to work in a very short span.
Using this technology both bypass grafts and valve replacements are being done.
The surgery was done on a 45 year old male patient successfully without stopping the heart beat. In the west, robotic surgeries were performed for minimal invasive methods but that is too expensive hence minimal invasive surgery is the answer and the future form of surgery, they said.
Dr AGK Gokhale explained that the patient has to be carefully selected and should not be obese and the heart function has to be good. Those who have had very recent heart attacks of less than a week or so are not fit cases for use of minimally invasive surgery. However, there is no extra risk involved in doing the surgery and on the contrary any minimisation of pain helps both the patient and doctor and this surgery is wonderful means, he added.
Dr Jayraman said that this is a new development and that he had initially started two years ago with high risk patient, not tolerating high risk approach. Dr Jayraman while stating that this was the future surgery, he said that doctors need to learn as this requires special instrumentation and ability to work with these instruments.
But this is one of the best forms of surgery as it not only lessens the patient’s pain but allows the patient to be back to work in a few days time, he added.