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Why patients choose Fortis Escorts Heart Institute?

Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi is a tertiary care super-specialty cardiac care hospital of Fortis Hospitals Network. Fortis Escorts Heart Institute aims at creating an integrated world-class healthcare system by leveraging the best medical practices backed by cutting-edge technology. Here we aspire to redefine healthcare and believe in excellence in everything we do. Fortis Escorts Heart Institute has been setting standards for excellence in healthcare for over 22 years. It is one of the pioneer stands – alone Cardiac Care Hospital to receive JCI (Patient Care & Safety), NABH (Hospital & Blood Bank) & ISO accreditation. It is also one of the hospitals to be awarded as Superbrands.

Exemplified by the vision of its founders, the hospital offers integrated and quality healthcare delivery. It has more than 200 cardiac doctors and 1,600 employees who work in tandem to manage over 14,500 admissions and 7,200 emergency cases in a year. With offering one of the finest medical skills combined with compassionate patient care, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute has a healthcare infrastructure that is comparable to the best in the world. It is owing to the dedication, brilliance and inimitable passion for pathbreaking work of its clinical team that the hospital is a pioneer in state-of-the-art cardiac care in India. By adopting new & improved clinical procedures and pioneering breakthroughs, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute is setting benchmarks in medical excellence.

Infrastructure

Fortis Escorts Heart Institute’s talented and experienced team of doctors is supported by cutting-edge technology and infrastructure. Its state-of-the-art infrastructure comprises around 272 beds, 9 operation theatres, 5 cath laboratories, 3 heart command centres and 2 heart stations. Moreover, the hospital has some of the latest and most advanced high-technology systems for imaging, radiology and pathology testing in its laboratories.

Some of which are:

• Dual Slice Somatom CT
• MRI-1.5 tesla Cardiovascular
• Da Vinci Robotic Surgery
• Advanced SPECT gamma camera

Adding with an efficient and robust information technology system enables better efficiency and greater patient convenience at the institute.

A plethora of services

Fortis Escorts Heart Institute is recognised world over as a centre of excellence providing the latest treatments in cardiac bypass surgery, minimally invasive surgery, interventional cardiology, noninvasive cardiology and paediatric cardiology & paediatric cardiac surgery. The hospital is backed by the most advanced laboratories performing a complete range of investigative tests in the field of nuclear medicine, radiology, biochemistry, haematology, transfusion medicine and microbiology.

Following include some of the services offered by Fortis Escorts Health Institute:

Diagnostics Services

Keeping in view the increasing role of diagnostics in cardiac care, the hospital has developed an elaborate protocol for the quick detection of cardiac ailments for patients as well those who are at risk. The diagnostic services at the hospital include detection for coronary heart disease (CAD), cardiac imaging techniques including echocardiography, cardiac MRI, multi-gated acquisition (MUGA), CT coronary angiography and ultrasonography.

Treatment Services

The treatment services at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute accommodate non-surgical as well as surgical methodologies. The non-surgical treatments include the use of interventional treatment, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP), permanent pacemaker implantation, etc. The surgical techniques include coronary bypass surgery, minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB), off pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB), trans myocardial laser revascularisation (TMLR), heart port surgery, robotic surgery and valve surgery, among others.

Robotic Cardiac Surgery

The latest advancement made in minimally invasive surgical techniques is the introduction of robotics in cardiac surgery. Fortis Escorts Heart Institute was the first centre in India to introduce robotics cardiac surgery in 2002 and carries out a broad range of closed-chest cardiac surgeries using this technology. These include coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), heart valve repair & replacement and also repairing of holes in heart.

Paediatric Cardiac Care

Fortis Escorts Heart Institute is the only cardiac hospital in India to have a dedicated paediatric department with a specialised, highly trained multi-disciplinary team of paediatric cardiologists, paediatric surgeons, anaesthesiologists and paediatric intensivists. It offers diagnostic services like foetal echo cardiography and surgical treatment for the repair of congenital heart disease. Some of its non-surgical treatments include ADS device closure, valvotomies and coarctation of aorta.

Some of the Key milestones:

• By March 2010, the hospital has conducted over 131,939 Angiographies, 33,958 Angioplasties and 72,820 cardiac surgical procedures with a success rate of over 99.7%
• Fortis Escorts Heart Institute created a world record in 2001 by performing 4000 cardiac surgeries in a single year
• In twenty years since its inception Fortis Escorts Heart Institute has treated more than 2 million patients
• Fortis Escorts Heart Institute is counted among the first to introduce robotic cardiac surgery in Asia,
• We were also the first to introduce YAG laser in India, which is considered a breakthrough in the treatment of coronary artery diseases.
• The Prucka IT version 6.5 is the latest, high-end electrophysiology laboratory equipment for the detection and treatment of complex arrhythmia.
• Fortis Escorts Heart Institute introduced the Fortis Escorts Heart Alert Service that has revolutionised cardiac care in India by providing an expert ECG interpretation over telephone within minutes of any chest complaint/symptoms. Patients in India as well as abroad can be benefited by this service.

Emergency Services

Air lift: The hospital has a dedicated team trained in aero-medical transport of critically ill cardiac patients. For evacuation, a fully trained team comprising a cardiologist, anaesthetist, nurse and cardiac surgeon along with essential life saving equipment like a ventilator, defibrillator, monitor, intra aortic balloon pump (IABP), etc, is dispatched to the destination in a 6-8 seater aircraft/helicopter.

Mobile cardiac care units (CCU): A fleet of well-equipped mobile CCUs is available 24 hours a day. “These CCUs house a ventilator, defibrillator, cardiac monitor and an IABP which is equivalent to a bed in CCU.

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