24 February 2024
It's been just over a couple of years since we started our humble journey of Cardiac Surgery at Medway Heart Institute. Today we crossed a thousand open hearts.
Thanks to all our patients who entrusted us. Thanks to each and every member of our team who made us who we are today. Thanks to our administration and our chairman Dr T.Palaniappan for all the support.
When we began, it was a roller coster ride to begin from no where.
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
The way we architectured our journey was to tackle each and every issue as we faced them. When a team works in unison with a single aim, a patient centric approach in our case made our sailing smooth at each and every step of ours.
We are proud to have devised a protocol based approach where each and every member of the team is empowered to perform their best, where every person feels responsible and takes pride in their contribution.
At this juncture I am proud of each member of our team, some of whom have stood with us for years together.
What gives us immense pride is all the tough cases which we took up. Our turn down rate of cases for the sheer complexity was quite negligible.
We are proud of the number of Mitral Valve Repairs, Aortic Aneurysms and dissections, complex re-do procedures, the number of surgeries on dialysis dependent patients and the Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardio Myopathy (HOCM) we performed in the last couple of years. We performed all these with quite negligible morbidity and mortality.
On the academic front, our surgical, anaesthetic, perfusion and physician assistants team have done quite a few presentations in various forums.
With more mile stones achieved, come greater responsibilities. We look forward for scaling greater heights in the years to come.
Dr Anbarasu Mohanraj
Director and Clinical Lead
Dept of Cardiac Surgery
Medway Heart Institute
