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Fortis Escorts Hospital launchesDay Care Angiography facility
Faridabad May 19, 2008: Fortis Escorts Hospital, Faridabad, a trusted name amongst the multispecialty hospitals in North India today, launched the Day Care Angiography facility – a solution to provide high-end critical care to the heart patients and those at high risk.
Angiography is a well established procedure performed to visualize blockages in the coronary arteries. Traditionally, it is the femoral route which is more popular. However, there are few setbacks which have now been taken care through Radial Angiography procedure.
Traditional -Femoral Route
- Problem in locating site of insertion in obese patients.
- Duration of hospital stay increases due to complications, hence proves to be expensive .
- Patient’s mobility is hampered and related complications like back pain may appear.
- Procedural complications faced due the length of post operative compression technique to prevent excessive bleeding.
- Region of insertion area, sensitive to post operative complications like haematomas and nerve end injuries.
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On the occasion Dr. Rajendra Sharma, COO, Fortis Escorts, said “We are glad to incorporate the Day Care Angiograhy facility at our hospital which will endow unique cardiac care using patient friendly radial angiography procedure to manage Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). Radial angiography will certainly meet the criteria of being safe, inexpensive and fast. We have a talented staff and the availability of the supporting state-of –the-art facilities would definitely play a role in our ability to perform the most complex cardiac procedures.”
According to Dr. Rishi Gupta, cardiologist Fortis Escorts, “People gain confidence of getting the best that science and surgery offers. More importantly, they are saved from the trauma and additional cost associated with specialized surgerical and diagnostic procedures. Radial angiography is being considered as a gold standard for evaluation of CAD and gives a perfect idea of the nature and extent of coronary disease and blocks”.
Radial Angiography
- Sometimes patient prefer radial route due to inhibitions.
- No hospitalisation is required hence economical.
- The technique is also preferred as mobilisation of patients post- procedure is very fast as compared to femoral access.
- Post operative vascular complications are significantly less, enabling the patients for a speedy and easy recovery.
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Fortis Escorts Hospital offers high end medical facilities for delivering best practices in healthcare. The hospital provides super-specialty services catering tertiary and quaternary healthcare to patients in areas such as cardiac care, orthopedics, neurosciences, oncology, renal care, gastroenterology and mother and child care.“
Once the radial angiography is performed the patient is in and out of the hospital the same day and may return to work after few hours, almost certainly the next day. It is as simple as going to a dentist and getting your tooth extracted.” adds Dr. Sharma.
About Fortis Healthcare Limited
Fortis Healthcare Limited, a Ranbaxy promoter group company, was incorporated in the year 1996. It was founded on the vision of creating an integrated healthcare delivery system. Based in Delhi, FHL, which acquired Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre Limited in September 2005, has operations in Delhi, Jaipur, Noida, Mohali (Chandigarh), Amritsar, Faridabad, Raipur and Srinagar. It currently has a network of 13 hospitals primarily in North India and 16 satellite and heart command centres, including one heart command centre in Afghanistan. These hospitals include multi specialty hospitals, as well as super-specialty centres providing tertiary and quaternary healthcare to patients in areas such as cardiac care, orthopedics, neurosciences, oncology, renal care, gastroenterology and mother and child care. The hospitals that FHL manages include Fortis La Femme, a "boutique" style hospital that focuses on women's health and maternity care. FHL has the capacity to increase inpatient beds to approximately 2200 beds and has performed more than 6,000 open heart surgeries, 5,000 angioplasties and 16,000 angiographies in the last fiscal year.
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