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Undergoing bypass surgery fully awake

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: A team of specialists at Care Hospital performed a multiple bypass surgery without putting the 56-year-old cardiac patient on general anaesthesia or ventilator. The chief cardiac surgeon, Prateek Bhatnagar, who led the team, said it was the first time in India that a multi-vessel, total arterial beating heart bypass surgery was performed on a patient fully awake.

Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Dr. Bhatnagar said AWAKE CABG, the technology was used on Janardhan Reddy, who had critical blocks in coronary arteries with poor pumping of heart. All the blocked arteries were bypassed using beating heart surgery and arterial grafts.

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