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First awake heart surgery

Kamineni Hospitals cardiac surgeon Dr Sunil Agarwal and cardiac anaesthesiologists Dr Sai Satyanarayana and Dr Phaneshwar have performed its first 'awake heart surgery' last week using cervical epidural anaesthesia. This is a special anaesthesia technique used to perform open heart surgery in an awake patient. This does not paralyse or comatose the patients. The patients can interact with the doctors. The recovery is faster in this method, said Dr CR Patnaik, chief of the anaesthesiology department.

The patient was admitted with aortic stenosis and needed a valve replacement. "The patient was awake and responded to the commands during the surgery," he said. Dr Sai and Dr Agarwal said the new method with 'beating heart surgery' would reduce the complications. The new method will reduce the costs of surgery, said Kamineni managing director Dr. K Shashidhar in a press release.

First awake heart surgery

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