A first in Central India by Apollo hospitals

Apollo hospitals, Indore, marked a key milestone by performing the first- day care or same day angioplasty on 69 year old male. Day care or day stay procedures cut hospital stay of a patient significantly and allow a patient to be back in the confort of their homes the same day.

Angioplasty involves me-chanically widening the narrowed or obstructed ar-teries. The patient, Rad-havallabh Tank, had been diagnosed with a blocked coronary vessel causing breathlessness and heavi-ness of the chest and was advised angioplasty. The angioplasty procedure is routinely performed at ma-jor tertiary care hospitals and entails a two- to three-day-long stay in hospital.

In a first in central India, doctors at the Vijay Nagar-based Apollo Hospitals performed radial angio-plasty.

Dr Sarita Rao, senior con-sultant, said, "We saw during the pandemic a scarcity of beds and the deadly virus disease which killed millions worldwide due to a lack of beds and hospital infrastructure. This led us to think of a way in which we could reduce bed occu-pancy and other facilities utilisation and early dis-charge is one of the easiest things to be adopted for avoiding such situations in future.

Dr Roshan Rao, senior consultant and head, de-partment of cardiology, said, "Patient safety has al-ways been-and will contin-ue to be-of the highest pri-ority when we decide be-tween discharging patients undergoing elective low?risk PCI the same day as the procedure, or admit-ting them for overnight observation."

Dr. Sarita Rao is one of the Top cardiologist in MP and provides treatment of Heart diseases at her clinic in Indore. If you are in searching the Best Cardiologist doctor in MP for Angioplasty, then you must come to Dr Sarita Rao's clinic in Indore.

Dr. Sarita Rao, Senior Intervention cardiologist, with experience of 21+ years in the field of Cardiac Surgery and has been associated with the top hospital in Indore Apollo Hospital. She also handles the additional responsibility of being the Director Cath-Lab and is instrumental in performing more than 20000 cardiac procedures in this ultra-modern hospital facility.

She has been a torchbearer for many new procedures in central India and she is the first female surgeon to have conducted the Live TAAVI procedure in the whole of SARC Countries. Her intellectual pursuits have been recognized in many National and International journals through publications of her research works.

She is also very versatile in imparting her gained knowledge for the larger betterment of the society and has been actively been imparting know-how to students, peers, and other medical fraternity members through guest lectures, by being faculty at different medical institutions, presentations, and seminars.