Organ Donation :One Brain Dead Person can Save 9 Lives
Friday, May 8, 2009
Did you that one Brain dead person can give a life to 9 other person. !!
The Transplantation of Human Organs Act-1994 was introduced in 1994 to help in Organ Donation for the needed ones, and also to stop commercial dealings of human organs which includes both Living adn Dead Donors (Cadaver Donors).
According to this act, a person can donate, a doctor can remove and patients can accept those organs as per the law.
Though the act was passed in 1994, the number of cadaver donors are very less.A single BRAIN DEAD person can give life to atleast 9 (nine) different individuals..Around 8 to 10 Brain Dead persons are found in various hospitals at any point of time in major cities like Bangalore.
Around 8 crores people in India need a transplant,whereas only 20 to 30 people out of every million people may become potential donors.From January 1995 till date, hardly 40 hearts from Cadaver Donors in India were transplanted which is abysmally low as compared to the demand.
Organ failure can strike anybody at any time as a result of illness or infection. For most people who experience organ failure, a transplant is their only realistic treatment option. If you die, your organs could help several people through organ transplants and many others through tissue grafts. For e.g. your liver could save the life of someone whose liver has been damaged through illness or accident. A person who is attached to a dialysis machine could return to full-time work after receiving one kidney. Every effort is made to save your life before donation is considered and donation does not disfigure the body.
What Organs can be donated?
Organs: heart, kidneys, pancreas, lungs, liver, and intestines
Tissues: currently transplanted human tissues include bone, corneas, skin, heart valves, veins, cartilage and other connective tissues.
Bone marrow
In Bangalore alone around 2000 patients are with life support of DIALYSIS. All of them need Kidney Transplantation and it is increasing in number. While so far in Karnataka only 10 Cadaver Donations have been taken place.
The Karnataka Olympic Association has organized a Walkathon for Organ Donation on Sunday the 10th May 2009 at 8 a.mThe Flag off from VIDHANA SOUDHA and Ends at SREE KANTEERAVA STADIUM
We encourage everyone including our medical fraternity to Pledge today for Organ Donation and give some a new ray of life... and who knows you too could become a recipient !!
11 month Orissa baby undergoes Double switch heart surgery to get a new life at Wockhardt Hospitals, Bangalore
The Pediatric cardiac team at Wockhardt Hospitals has written a new chapter in the history of Pediatric Heart Surgery in India. An 11 month old baby girl from Orissa has become a rare case to be successfully operated for Congenitally Corrected Transposition of Great Arteries (CCTGA) which occurs in less than 1% of children born with heart defects. The Pediatric cardiac team at Wockhardt Hospitals led by Dr. Devananda, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon successfully completed this six hour surgery on the little baby without any complications.
Baby Pinky (name changed) who is the second child in the family was observed to have breathing difficulty in her second month and upon consultation with the local doctors in Orissa they were referred to Bangalore for further consultation and treatment. The family visited a couple of renowned hospitals in Bangalore but the hospitals had no surgical solution to offer and refused to operate upon the child due to the complexity of the case. That is when the child was brought to Wockhardt Hospitals.
The diagnosis by the doctors at Wockhardt Hospitals revealed that the baby was born with ventricular septral defect and straddling tricuspid valve. In this case the pumping chambers (ventricles) are switched along with the great arteries (aorta and pulmonary artery). The baby also had a large hole in between the ventricles and encroaching of one of the valves across the hole. Children born with this kind of defect might also have abnormal electrical conduction system which means they might be highly susceptible to a complete heart block.
Explaining the case Dr. Devananda, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals said, “This is one of the rarest cases we have observed in congenital heart defects where the chambers along with the arteries were in the reversed position. Since it was a complex case we had to perform three cardiac procedures on the baby in one sitting. First we had to do the closure of the VSD (ventricular septal defect) in such a way that the encroachment of the valve should not hamper the blood flow. Secondly, we redirected the pure and impure blood to the respective normal ventricles (atrial switch) and thirdly we switched the great arteries to the respective ventricles (arterial switch).” This complex condition is seen in less than 1% of all children born with heart defects.
The baby can lead a normal life and will not require any further surgical treatment” said Dr Devananda. The treatment was done at a subsidized cost at the hospital and was supported by the Needy Heart Foundation.
Is your latest Electronic Gadget a Carrier of Germs
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Do you know that its not only the radiation from your mobile phone and electronic gadgets which is harmful ,but also your mobile is a carrier of dangerous germs . For most of us hooked to mobile phones the harmless looking Gadgets like our mobile phones and iPods might be something which has became indispensable for our daily needs of communication,however what you did not know that, these gadgets are also the carriers of dangerous bacteria and micro organisms.
In a recent article in Mid-Day about the dangers of Mobile Phones as germ carriers, explains why bacteria formation in mobile phones might cause infection.
What makes mobiles a hotbed for bacteria is the way we handle them. Infections are usually caused when micro-organisms from unwashed hands are transferred to the surface of the phone. The fact that cell phones offer a warm environment, helps microbes multiply. Since phones are usually stored in bags or in pockets, microbes have easy access to a warm environment. Sweat when transferred from our skin to the phone ups humidity, and moisture ends up aiding the growth of these organisms, explains Dr Supriya Amey, Consultant Microbiologist, Wockhardt Hospital. Over time, these microbes can cause infections in your skin and the soft tissue (like ligaments and muscles)
A recent British study discovered that mobile devices carry tens of thousands of bacteria including Staphylococcus aureus, which can cause everything from pimples and boils to pneumonia and meningitis. In another study, an Arizona microbiologist tested 25 random mobile phones and found the staph bug growing on nearly half!”
Ways of Protecting yourself
The easiest option is to maintain thorough hand hygiene and handling your cell phone after washing your hands. "Wash your hands with a soap or use a hand-sanitiser. Ensure that you wipe the cell phone with an alcohol-based solution, using a tissue daily. If you are visiting a hospital or paying a visit to someone who is unwell, there's more likelihood of germs getting transferred. So, avoid carrying your cell phone altogether if you are visiting some patient at a hospital.
Here are some more tips on cleaning your must have gadgets
Here are some more tips on cleaning your must have gadgets
MP3 Cleaning
Wipe down your MP3s using a clean, soft, dry cloth. Don’t use paper towels because you’ll just scratch the screen. If you haven’t cleaned your MP3 for a while, try putting ammonia free glass cleaner on the soft cloth. And don’t forget to wipe down the ear-buds and cords!
Cell Phone
Once a week wipe down your cell phone with a dry cloth. If you spill something on it (like coffee, for example) turn the cell phone off, take out the battery and clean it with a cotton swapped dipped (but not dripping!) in isopropyl alcohol. Try to get into all those little crevices. It’s a pain but it’s better than getting a new cell phone.
The Laptop Keyboard
Slightly dampen a lint-free cloth with water and wipe down the keyboard. Then dampen some cotton swabs and try to get into the places where the cloth just could not reach.
Medical Tourism Provider Raves about Service Standards at Wockhardt Hospitals
Thursday, April 30, 2009
In another testimony to the quality and service standards at Wockhardt Hospitals ,IndUShealth which is among one of the well known medical tourism facilitator for North Americans has described the patient care facilties and post operative treatment at Wockhardt Hospitals as one as one the the best among the top hospital across the world.
Writing in his Blog ,Tom Keesling mentions about the Indian healthcare system in general and his experience at the Wockhardt Hospitals .
Tom was the President and CEO for hospitals in Kentucky and Michigan, specializing in turnaround services for financially distressed hospitals. His efforts resulted in the creation of high-performance, sustainable healthcare systems in the US
In his blog post "Wockhardt Raises the Bar for Surprise and Delight" Tom writes
Tom was the President and CEO for hospitals in Kentucky and Michigan, specializing in turnaround services for financially distressed hospitals. His efforts resulted in the creation of high-performance, sustainable healthcare systems in the US
In his blog post "Wockhardt Raises the Bar for Surprise and Delight" Tom writes
I have enjoyed the personal satisfaction of watching hundreds of patients leave the United States in physical pain and financial worry, and returning from our partner hospitals in India having benefited from an extraordinary medical and personal experience . As a former hospital CEO, I have marveled at how quickly the Indian healthcare system has evolved...and wondered if the US system could ever provide the same value if we could magically remove third party payers, and the other unique burdens of capitalism.
Talking about an incident at Wockhardt Hospitals Bangalore, where the local staff celebrated the wedding Anniversary of a couple while the wife was recovering from a cervical disc replacement. Unknown to the patient and her husband, the hospital team at Wockhardt Hospitals took the occasion of a previously arranged tour of the city to treat them to a surprise wedding anniversary dinner at a local restaurant...complete with music and chocolate cake.
This,according to Tom might seem a perfect example how Wockhardt Hospitals has succeeded in pushing up customer service to the highest standards,and raised the bar for surprise and delight.
Commenting on the difference in post operative care Tom writes "In the US, the patient only needs to be ready for discharge from the hospital...in India, the patient must be ready for the journey back home. So Indian post-surgical physical therapy is immediate and continuous right from the surgery.
Wockhardt Hospitals Featured in " Economist "
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Wockhardt Hospitals had been featured in the latest edition of "Economist " in a article titled "lessons from the frugal innovator". Writing about the Indian Healthcare's innovation and rapid success that it has seen over the last few years, particularly in " medical tourism", the Economist pays rich tributes to private Indian Healthcare Companies who have successfully managed to navigate adversity into opportunity.This is inspite of Indian Healthcare being largely unorganised apart from the few state of the art corporate hospitals that has reinvented Indian Healthcare delivery by providing the best of quality service standards at reasonable prices.
Featuring Doctor Vivek Jawali, in its story, the man who created a history by doing an Awake bypass surgery on a fully conscious patient without general anesthesia or ventilator, using the technique of continuous high thoracic epidural analgesia, The economist goes on to say that this is just one of many innovations in health care that have been devised in India.
"Its entrepreneurs are channeling the country’s rich technological and medical talent towards frugal approaches that have much to teach the rich world’s bloated health-care systems. Dr Jawali is feted today as a pioneer, but he remembers how Western colleagues ridiculed him for years for advocating his inventive “awake surgery”. He thinks that snub reflects an innate cultural advantage enjoyed by India.
Unlike the hidebound health systems of the rich world, he says, “in our country’s patient-centric health system you must innovate.” This does not mean adopting every fancy new piece of equipment. Over the years he has rejected surgical robots and “keyhole surgery” kit because the costs did not justify the benefits. Instead, he has looked for tools and techniques that spare resources and improve outcomes."
Unlike the hidebound health systems of the rich world, he says, “in our country’s patient-centric health system you must innovate.” This does not mean adopting every fancy new piece of equipment. Over the years he has rejected surgical robots and “keyhole surgery” kit because the costs did not justify the benefits. Instead, he has looked for tools and techniques that spare resources and improve outcomes."
Minimally Invasive Procedures for Non-Resectable Liver Tumors
Minimally invasive techniques are used at also used at Wockhardt Hospitals for the treatment of non-resectable tumours of the liver. These treatments are the options if surgery is not possible due to cirrhosis (or other conditions that cause poor liver function), the location of the tumor within the liver, or other health problems.
- RFA: Radio-frequency ablation of the tumour which can be either percutaneous under Ultrasound or CT guidance or during open surgery.
- PEI: Percutaneous Ethanol Injection of the tumour
- TACE:Chemo-embolisation of the tumour using interventional radiological techniques.
- TACE for unresectable HCC
Portal Hypertension :
Portal hypertension and its complications (mainly bleeding from Varices) remain important clinical problems despite advances in treatment and understanding of the disease. Professor Mathur is recognised world over as an authority in the management of portal hypertension with huge experience of managing more than 600 patients of portal hypertension since 1982. Researched and developed an effective, safe and economical Sclerosant (3% Aqueous Phenol) for Esophageal variceal injection.It has been used more than 1000 patients since 1983.Developed inexpensive Injector indigenously for sclerotherapy.
He has to his credit developed his own surgical technique for emergency rebleed - mathur’s modification of Sugiura’s procedure, which is recognized world over with rebleed rate of < 5%.
Wockhardt Hospitals,Liver Center also performs all types of porto-systemic shunts including the selective shunts such as Distal Spleno-renal shunt.
Wockhardt Hospitals,Liver Center also performs all types of porto-systemic shunts including the selective shunts such as Distal Spleno-renal shunt.
Portal biliopathy, a term used for clinical condition where patient develops obstructive jaundice due to compression of the bile duct by portal cavernoma , is well recoganised. Wockhardt Hospitals,Mumbai has a vast experience in treating such cases where portosystemic decompression by shunt surgery with or without biliary diversion that has resulted in permanent cure of the disease.
This is one of the few units in the country with capability and experience of treating portal hypertension with all available treatment modalities namely – medical management, endoscopic therapy, TIPS and SurgeryThe unit has large experience in managing case of non-cirrhotic portal hypertension and Budd-Chiari Syndrome
Dr Mathur has published about 30 research papers on Portal hypertension in International and Indian National journals and written chapters in books and regularly get invited to deliver guest lectures on surgical management of Portal hypertension at International and National conferences and CMEs.
To contact our Liver Transplant and to know about our Minimally Invasive Procedures,please write to enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net
To contact our Liver Transplant and to know about our Minimally Invasive Procedures,please write to enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net
Liver Transplant Program at Wockhardt Hospitals,Mumbai
Monday, April 20, 2009
The department of GI(Gastrointestinal Surgery) ,HPB(Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery) and Liver Transplantation surgery at Wockhardt Hospital provides comprehensive management ie. Surgical ( open as well as Minimally invasive) medical,endoscopic,radiological and interventions for patients with complex problems of gastrointestinal tract, liver, gallbladder, bileduct, and pancreas. It has consistently given results comparable to the best in the world in the field of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Liver transplantation.
Liver Transplantation Program
The Wockhardt Hospitals,Mumbai has been running Liver Transplantation program which is recognised by the Govt. of Maharashtra under “The Transplantation of Human Organs Act,1994” of Govt of India. In September 2006 the 1st successful Live donor adult to adult liver transplantation was performed at Wockhardt hospitals, Mumbai. This was the first adult to adult LT using Right liver graft in the entire western and central India.
Clinical Facilities at the Wockhardt Hospitals, Liver Transplant Center- Liver Transplantation ICU of International Standards managed by Nurses specially trained for managing LT patients.
- Well planned Operation rooms equipped with: CUSA, Argon Beam Coagulator, Tissue link,Ligasure, Intraoperative USG with colour doppler,patient warmers, Rapid fluid Infusor system(level-1), Online fluid warmers etc.
- Anaesthesia machine and Multi channel Monitors and special monitors for Cardiac output and SVR .TEG machine for intraoperative monitoring of coagulation.
- Blood bank with facilities for preparing blood components
- Laboratory for Hematology,biochemistry and Microbiology
- Radiology:
- Advanced CT and MRI for evaluation of Live donor : Dr Rajat Bhargava head of MRI and CT is an Expert in calculating Liver volume and providing the proper Vascular and biliary images
- Sonologist ( Dr Sonali) an expert in performing Intraoperative post Liver Transplant doppler USG
- Interventional Radiology: for vascular and biliary interventions
The Liver Transplantation team is headed by Prof Dr S K Mathur MS,FACS and consists of
- Two fully trained Liver transplant Surgeons, a Microvascular surgeon 4 assistant surgeons.
- 3 well trained anaesthetists with experience in liver cases and liver transplantation
- Team of trained Intensivists
- Hepatologists
- Social workers cum transplant coordinators
Successful Liver transplantations done at Wockhardt Hospitals:
The team has done successful Cadaver as well as Live donor Partial(LDLT) liver Transplantations
Case 1: Mr Jogilkar LDLT from son to father (2yrs 6 months)The team has done successful Cadaver as well as Live donor Partial(LDLT) liver Transplantations
Case2:Mr Chaturvedi Cadaver Transplantation(1yr 5months)
Case3: Jitin 11 yrs LDLT Father to son (1yr 4months)
Case4: Mr Kathuria Cadaver Transplantation (3months)
Liver Surgery Expertise
Dr S.K Mathur has experience of more than 20 years in performing all types of liver resections for benign ( hemangioma, adenoma) as well as malignant tumors ( Primary & Metastatic). Following major resectional surgery of the liver; most of the patients make uneventful recovery and require one or two day stay in the intensive care and are discharged by fifth-7th day of the surgery.
Resections for large liver tumours are performed using advanced resectional techniques like hanging maneuvour, piggy-back technique, total anterior approach etc. Benign tumours of the liver like Hemangiomas, are treated either by resection or enucleation.
To set up an online appointment with our Liver Transplant or Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery please write to enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net
Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai
Mulund Goregaon Link Road,
Mumbai 400078
Tel no: +91-22-67994444 / 25664488
enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net
Live Workshop On Obesity Surgery at Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Wockhardt Hospitals,Mumbai had recently conducted a live workshop on the obesity surgery at the Asia-Oceania Conference on Obesity.
Dr.Francesco Rubino from Cornell Medical Centre, the first person to perform research to establish diabetic cure by surgery was there to share his cutting edge research with other physician & surgeons. Similarly, Many other surgeons like Michel Gagner from Mt. Sinai Medical Centre, USA, Phil Schauer from Cleveland Clinic, USA,Martin Fried from the Czech Republic, Kazunori Kasama from Japan also participated in this mega event.
The Wockhardt hospitals Bariatric Surgeon & Chairman, Organizing Committee, Dr.Ramen Goel Stated that for the first time in the entire Asian region a program of this nature was held. Almost all bariatric surgeons from india too, participated in this program.Many patients benefited from this surgery as they were treated by experts in this field.
This conference was supported by the Indian Council of Medical Research, was attended by hundreds of experts from the field of obesity & bariatric surgery. Eminent surgeons at the Wockhardt Hospitals, Mulund conducted live surgeries on obese patients. The bariatric surgery department of Wockhardt Hospital is a well equipped centre of excellence and attracts a large number of international patients for this kind of surgery, Last year, India`s heaviest patient, had undergone surgery at Wockhardt hospitals, Mulund.
The primary treatment for obesity is dieting and physical exercise. If this fails, anti-obesity drugs may be taken to reduce appetite or inhibit fat absorption. In severe cases, surgery is performed or an intragastric balloon is placed to reduce stomach volume and or bowel length, leading to earlier satiation and reduced ability to absorb nutrients from food.
Complications from bariatric surgery are frequent. A study of insurance claims of 2522 who had undergone bariatric surgery showed 21.9% complications during the initial hospital stay and a total of 40% risk of complications in the subsequent six months.
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