No blood loss and faster recovery, robots are becoming a better option for heart surgery

Open heart surgery is done to replace the heart valve. The chest bone is cut, there is blood loss, one has to stay in the hospital for several days, recovery takes time. But when the same surgery is done with the help of a robot, then neither the chest bone has to be cut, nor there is blood loss, recovery is better and faster. This is the claim of the surgeon who does the surgery with the robot. He even says that its success rate is up to 98 percent. In such a situation, it is becoming a new and better option for heart surgery.

Surgery for hole in the heart through robot

According to the expert of Apollo Hospital, 39-year-old Rachna had a hole in her heart. She had this disease since birth. She never had any problem before but now she started having problems. Suddenly she started having trouble breathing and walking. Then she got treatment in another private hospital in Delhi where the disease was detected. The doctors there advised her to undergo open heart surgery. The patient Rachna said that she got scared after hearing this. She had also got the date of surgery from the doctor. Meanwhile, the woman contacted the doctors of Apollo Hospital. Apollo’s expert advised her to undergo robotic surgery. She agreed to it. Three weeks ago, surgery for the hole in the heart was done with the help of a robot.

80 percent of the patients did not require blood transfusion

Similarly, another patient, 29-year-old Saddam Hussain, was also operated with a robot. Due to leakage in his valve, his heart was working only 35 percent. The valve was replaced with the help of a robot. Both were discharged from the hospital on the third day and are healthy now. Apollo Hospital’s heart surgeon Dr. Varun Bansal said that the facility of surgery with robot was started one and a half years ago. So far, 40 patients have been treated with its help. During this, it was found that 80 percent of the patients did not require blood transfusion.