Dr. Ayush Srivastava

  Heart Bypass Surgery Heart bypass surgery creates a new route, called a bypass, for blood and oxygen to go around a blockage to reach your heart. Description Before your surgery, you will get general anesthesia. You will be asleep (unconscious) and pain-free during surgery. Once you are unconscious, the heart surgeon will make an 8 to 10-inch (20.5 to 25.5 cm) surgical cut in the middle of your chest. Your breastbone will be separated to create an opening. This allows your surgeon to see your heart and aorta, the main blood vessel leading from the heart to the rest of your body. Most people who have coronary bypass surgery are connected to a heart-lung bypass machine or bypass pump. Your heart is stopped while you are connected to this machine. This machine does the work of your heart and lungs while your heart is stopped for the surgery. The machine adds oxygen to your blood, moves blood through your body, and removes carbon dioxide. Another type of bypass surgery does not use t...

VATS Decortication VATS Decortication is the surgical procedure that involves the use of Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery Device to be able to remove the abnormal part of the layer covering the lungs known asthe pleural membrane. VATS Decortication is indicated to be used in some of the most dangerous lung problems like pulmonary empyema or collection of pus in the pleural cavity, fibrothorax or formation of fibrous tissue over the lung membrane, different tumors and eveninfections. VATS Decortication can definitely be able to bring back your lung's normal functioning immediately. In VATS Decortication, a small video recording device is introduced to the chest primarily through a scope that is used to view all of the organs as well as all of the instruments that will be used for the said procedure. The camera together with the rest of the instruments to be used in the procedure is then inserted through the ports in the chest wall. These ports as separate small holes on the chest wal...