Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cardiac Anesthesia > Alumni
The department of cardiac anesthesia started it’s services on 02/08/2021 with dr karan kaushik as its first and currently the only faculty, under guidance & support from its parent department of anaesthesia. The department is dedicated for the best outcome of patients posted for cardiac surgeries both adult and paediatric, undergoing high risk procedures in cath lab., needing advanced life support facilities like ecmo & also those high risk patients with complex cardiac deseases undergoing noncardiac surgeries like caesarean section. The department is also dedicated in improving the outcome of both cardiac surgery icu & cardiology icu.
So far the department in association with and guidance of anaesthesia department, has been succeccfull in setting benchmarks in patient care:
Successful management of two patients with eissenmenger’s syndrome (end stage cardiac desease) presenting for caesarean section, and became the 1st in reporting 1st two survivals of the state.
Successful initiation of hybrid procedures for complicated complex congenital cardiac deseases with two different departments namely cardiology & cardiac surgery.
Became the 1st to report successful management of caesarean section & cardiac surgery in one go with both mother & child healthy
Initiation of vv ecmo in association with medicine department and forming the 1st ecmo team with the three departments.
The department is also dedicated in teaching & training of residents with recent hemodynamic monitors, point of care ultrasound & echocardiography; in association with anaesthesia department conducted the first national ecmo conference of the city namely: ecmo-alst 2022.