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Cardiac Health Today

Today cardiac problems is even impacting the mid age generation in India. The urban and semi urban cities and towns are adding to the number of patients. Mostly working professionals in their mid 40’s are at times victims of sudden heart attacks or diagnosed for cardiac problems by cardiologists or cardiac surgeons while checking for chest pain, blackouts and extreme fatigue with little activity.

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DESUN Hospital Cardiac Care Facility

Desun Hospital has state of art facilities for managing any cardiac emergency and also for latest heart surgeries. The cost is affordable; the hospital has facility for cashless mediclaim (PPN listed hospital) and also payment in EMI facility (Equal Monthly Installments) for expensive cardiac surgeries.

Cardiac Emergency

Cardiac Emergency management success rate is very high due to a strong medical emergency management foundation created by Desun. The medical emergency management quick response teams consist of doctors, surgeons, medical staff and hospital administration people. The quick response starts from attending the calls received on the dedicated emergency phone number, providing ambulance assistance, initial diagnosis, hospital admission if required and emergency OT as per the diagnosis.

Desun Chest Pain Center

Desun Hospital Chest Pain Center is a facility to help people with good medical facility in case of Chest Pain. The emergency team is quick to respond and it combines experienced cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, medical test facilities and expert medical staff. It is open 24 Hours to provide medical management and discharging patients as they get stable and the required diagnosis is done. There is also facility for hospitalization as per requirement.

Latest Cardiac Surgeries

Desun hospital has experienced doctors, expert medical teams to manage critical cardiac cases and deliver excellence in terms of medical management, heart surgeries and procedures like angioplasty, heart bypass surgery, permanent pacemaker surgery , heart valve replacement etc.

The LATEST Surgeries and procedures include LIMA-RIMA Y, Radial Angioplasty, Radial Angiogram, High quality stents, pacemakers and cardiac devices.

LIMA-RIMA Y or Arterial Heart Bypass is done by using the arteries and not the veins. This heart bypass done lasts longer and helps the person to lead a healthy and normal life for a long time.

Coronary Angioplasty Stents: Desun Hospital only uses high quality American Company Manufactured Stents. The stents are FDA and Government of India approved and the stents cost as per Government of India regulated price.

Radial Angiogram: Radial Angiogram is done through the wrist area and not the groin area. This angiogram process helps in faster healing, much less pain and assures more safety from post procedure complications and infections.

Permanent Pacemaker Surgery: Desun hospital has facility for Dual Chamber Pacemaker surgery and also cardiac devices. Cardiac pacemaker surgeries that help people to get back to regular life sooner and lead a normal day to day life post surgery.

Desun Hospital has NABH accreditation and is a superspeciality hospital.

In today’s demanding lifestyle people are too engaged with work and various other responsibilities and there is less time for work out, relaxation and following a healthy lifestyle. This is resulting in high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and many other such diseases among people; it is not only affecting the older generation but also the young and middle aged people. The number of cases of heart attack and other heart and brain related problems have increased and many people are at risk.

Heart Attack | Cardiac Arrest | Brain Stroke

Definitions

Heart Attack i.e. Myocardial Infarction

When supply of blood to the heart is largely reduced or restricted due to clots or narrowing of the arteries due to plaque the condition may precipitate to a heart attack. It is important to restore normal or adequate blood flow to the heart as soon as possible to prevent damage to the heart muscles and death if not treated properly.

Cardiac Arrest

When the heart, all of a sudden stops beating and this result in cutting the flow of blood and oxygen to vital organs in the human body the condition is called cardiac arrest. The beating of the heart needs to be restored immediately with medical intervention orelse death can occur in short time or within few minutes. The chance of death increases by upto 10% with each passing minute the patient not receiving appropriate medical intervention.

Stroke

When the flow of blood to the brain gets immensely limited , blocked or interrupted for long time for resulting in severe lack of oxygen and nutrients from brain tissues the brain cells starts to die within a few minutes of the stroke.

When the normal or adequate blood flow is restricted for a short time, mini strokes or Transient Ischemic Attacks occurs. People having one of few such mini strokes are more likely to get major strokes in later part of life

Difference in symptoms

Common Symptoms of a Heart Attack

Discomfort in chest area like heaviness, fullness
Chest pain
Shortness of breath
Sweating or cold sweating
Fainting
Pain radiating towards stomach, jaws, shoulder, neck area and Left arm towards the tip of the middle finger.
Sudden fatigue. Loss of energy

Common Symptoms of Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac arrest often comes about without warning. Symptoms include:

Loss or lack of consciousness
Breathing stops suddenly
Pulse drops or completely stops
Cannot feel the Blood Pressure.

People can experience Blackouts, pain in and around chest area, sudden dizziness, fainting, fatigue, rapid palpitations, shortness of breath or nausea or vomiting before cardiac arrest

Common Symptoms of Stroke

Difficulty in walking and stepping
Slurring of Speech i. e. Difficulty in speaking, responding and understanding things
Remembering usual things or recalling regular things may become difficult
Sudden problem in vision or seeing
Dizziness and or headache may be severe
Partial or complete paralysis, lack of response, weakness or numbness on one side of the body or bilateral depending upon the area of the stroke.
Feeling nausea and vomiting

Common Causes

Uncontrolled blood pressure
Less exercise, movement and / or physical activity
Excess body weight, especially around waist area. Obesity.
Diabetes or High blood sugar. Low blood sugar levels or hypoglycemia
Hereditary
Aging
Smoking
High cholesterol levels
Problems in pumping of blood from heart
Known case of cardiac arrest or heart attack
Considerable change in electrolytes
Hyperthyrodism
Pulmonary hypertension

Desun hospital is one of India’s best heart hospital with 24 Hours Emergency Admission Facility backed with a strong ambulance network all over West Bengal that includes Kolkata and districts , Specialist doctors even at midnight, Ventilator in each ICU bed, Steel OTs are in operation even at midnight.

Desun hospital is a NABH accredited hospital and have facility for more than 700 latest surgeries that includes Lima-RimaY , Pacemaker, Heart Bypass, Heart Valve Replacement and procedures like Angioplasty and Angiogram.

The 24 Hours emergency contact is open on all days. Just connect over 86977 21124 , 83340 31345. One can also email at info@desunhospital.com and send prescription and / or test documents to get surgery consultation from Desun Hospital expert team.

Desun Hospital has modern infrastructure for preventive cardiac care with team of Cardiologists, Heart Check – up Packages and Life Style Advice facility for people visiting cardiologists or undergoing cardiac check up.

Important Links

Website: www.desunhospital.com

Cardiac Surgeries: http://desunhospital.com/heart-related.php

Preventive Cardiac Care – Heart Check Up Packages:

http://www.desunhospital.com/desun-regular-cardiac-check.php

http://www.desunhospital.com/desun-advanced-cardiac-check.php