Hyderabad, Oct 5: Apollo Hospitals, on Thursday announced the launching of Hyderabad’s first Homecare recovery program integrated with cardiac surgery on the occasion of World Heart Day.
This 2-week program promises faster recovery, reduced medical complications, round-the-clock care and is fully integrated with the discharge advice of the cardiac surgeon, the hospitals said in a release here.
Speaking on the occasion, Apollo Group Joint Managing Director Dr Sangita Reddy, said, “This integrated care offering is a step forward in our vision of providing an effective continuum of care for patients. The program design as well as outcomes are on par with best in the world and reinforce our values of clinical excellence. The Cardiac team at Apollo Hospitals has been doing outstanding work over the years and more importantly the fact that the success rate has been extremely high.
Each of our specialists from the cardiac team has done multiple innovations, whether it’s in angioplasty, multiple ways of doing angioplasty, using advance machines like OCT to enhance the success rate, among the first ones to do the structural heart work like the TAVI or TAVR, she said.
Dr Sangita said Hyderabad has been at the forefront of innovation, we have completed 600 patients in an extremely successful pilot, which is clinically successful but more importantly the patient satisfaction is much more superior. I see this program going across the country and I congratulate the doctors for working with the home care team and making this a reality.
Dr AGK Gokhale, Sr Consultant Cardiac Surgeon said, “A planned recovery program not only helps patients to follow the discharge advice but also helps them recover faster through proactive mobilization and rehabilitation and helps manage the majority of the post-surgical complications. We are certainly seeing this benefit being achieved for our patients”.
Dr PV Naresh, Sr. Consultant Heart and Lung Transplantation and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, said, through the home care services we are extending the follow up of the patients to their home. Minor issues can be taken care of at home, they need not rush to the hospital for such problems. 93% of pain management can be taken care of at home and there is no need for him to come to hospital. Constant counselling while at home will help patients to get advice and recover faster.
Sometimes follow up is needed for a longer period of six months to one year, which the patient can do by seeking counselling from home, without coming to hospital frequently.
