Department of Cardiovascular aND Thoracic Surgery
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Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
The department of CVTS was started in the month of February 2014. The appointed consultants joined the department in February 2014. The department was headed by senior consultant Dr. Shirish S Borkar, along with a team of consultants consisting of Junior consultant CVTS Dr. Jagannath P Kolwalkar and 2 consultant cardiac anaesthesiologists viz. Dr. M Sunil Chandra Vidya Sagar and Dr. Bikash Sahu.
After establishing the infrastructure and all the equipment in place for the cardiac operation theatre, with the help of our team, we did the first open heart surgery in the history of GMC on 10th April 2014. We started operating on a daily basis, from Monday to Friday, operating one open heart case every day initially and over a period of 3 months we started doing 2 open heart surgery cases per day, which we still do till date. New junior consultant CVTS surgeon, Dr. Vijay Madhan joined in 2018. Two new cardiac anaesthesiologists, one consultant Dr. N Jagadeesh Vaggar and one junior consultant Dr. Sushmit Kamat have joined the dept. in 2018. We have also expanded our support staff, by hiring more ICU nurses and operation theatre nurses and attenders for class IV staff.
The Department has
Modular Operation Theatres
2 State of the art
16 bedded post-operative cardiac surgical ICU
26 bedded ward for in-patient care
Vision
We intend to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular diseases.
Mission
Providing quality cardiac care to each and every patient.
Infrastructure
All the postoperative ICUs are equipped with advanced, multi-channel cardiac monitors, ventilators, Intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP), Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) machines, defibrillators and all the essential equipment required to manage cardiac patients in the ICU. Post-operative ICUs are adequately staffed with a patient-to-nursing ratio of 2:1.
Our operation theatres are equipped with high-end anesthesia machines, trans-oesophageal echocardiography (TEE) machines, heart-lung machines, Intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP), Cardiac Output monitors, Defibrillators and external pacemaker machines. We have trained operation theatre nursing staff, clinical perfusionists and ancillary staff.
The current CVTS in-patient ward consists of 26 beds. All the beds have capabilities like Bedside oxygen ports, a facility to connect suction & ventilators and also to attach monitors in case of emergencies.
Faculty
Dr. Shirish Borkar
Professor & Head
Dr. Vijay Madhan
Assistant Professor
Dr. Jagannath P Kolwalkar
Associate Professor
Teaching Staff
Non Teaching Staff
Contact Details
- AProf & HOD - 0832 2495005
- AOffice - 0832 2495360
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