Cardiac workshop held at SSH
Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Oct 9 : Department of Cardiology SSH Jammu under the supervision of Dr Sushil Sharma added another feather to cap by organizing complex cardiac workshop for congenital / structural and electrophysiology/ablation in which both diagnostic and therapeutic interventions were done free of cost . All this was made possible in coordination with Dr Rohit Manoj, Paediatrics interventional Cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology PGIMER and Dr Devinder Bisht, electro physiologist and interventional cardiologist .
Dr Sushil Sharma said that aim of organizing such workshops is to provide world of art cardiac care to patients of this region and far flung areas and such procedures are now being done in government setup that too free of cost .
During this workshop besides imparting knowledge to medical and paramedical staff, paediatric cardiac interventions which included device closure for ASD, PDA and BMV were successfully done at par with any paediatric cardiac Center nationally or worldwide. Similarly during second day of the workshop radiofrequency ablation for cardiac arrhythmias were also done successfully and two patients required atrial septal puncture for left sided pathway ablations.
The main purpose of this workshop was to provide state of art paediatric cardiac intervention and electrophysiology procedures to the needy patients who are unable to travel to other centers of the country to avail these facilities and this time it was made possible for the patients of Jammu region with joint efforts of Dr Rohit Manoj , Dr Devinder Bisht , Dr Nasir Choudhary and supporting staff of Cardiac Cath lab and assistance from Anesthetic Team including Dr Vikas Gupta , Dr Monica Kumari and Dr Shivata Sharma
In his concluding remarks, Dr Sushil Sharma said that we should try to address modifiable risk factors for CHD whenever possible. Several of these risk factors are routinely addressed by high-quality prenatal care-for example, folate supplementation, education about teratogens, and management of maternal weight and gestational diabetes-and investment in prenatal care can be a first step to addressing CHD in the absence of treatment options. The specific treatment strategy could be individualized, depending on resources, disease characteristics, comorbidities and local medical expertise.
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