Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 23: Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (CVTS) in collaboration with Department of Cardiology, Anesthesiology/ Critical Care and Neonatology concluded a workshop on pediatric-cardiac surgery which was organized from April 18 to 23 at Sher-e-Kashmir Institutes of Medical Sciences.
A spokesperson of SKIMS said the visiting team from AIIMS New Delhi included Dr Balram Airan, who is professor and head Cardiac Surgery and Dean Faculty of Medicine AIIMS New Delhi, pediatric cardiac surgeon Professor Sachin Talvar and pediatric-cardiac anesthetic Dr Vishva Malik, perfusionist and rest of the supportive staff in post-operative period.
“The team performed 14 complex cardiac surgeries in small children along-with heart surgeons of SKIMS. All the patients are doing well. The Chief Organizer of the workshop Dr Abdul Majeed Dar, Professor Pediatric Cardiac Surgery said that this workshop will go a long way in establishing a set-up of neonatal complex cardiac surgeries at SKIMS so these patients do not have to suffer outside the State, as the surgical skills for operating such patients are now available at SKIMS,” said the SKIMS spokesperson.
Director SKIMS and EOSG Professor Showkat Ali Zargar said that such activities are meant to establish complete set-up for managing these critically ill children at our own place who were otherwise suffering outside or most of them were not reaching to that state due to their high risk and costly surgeries for such complex cardiac defects.
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