Gleneagles launches heart failure registry

  • | Friday | 16th June, 2017

CHENNAI: Heart diseases continue to kill millions of people in India despite public health initiatives and advances in medical technology, but the country still does not have statistics on the prevalence of heart failure The Gleneagles Global Hospitals has launched an advanced heart failure treatment programme to identify the prevalence of heart failure among Indians.All heart disease, as it progresses, results in heart failure, or a gradual weakening of the heart. "We are now in 2017, but still we do not know the prevalence of heart diseases. An online registry is the need of the hour," he said.At least 11 government medical college hospitals and ten tertiary care private hospitals would be a part of the registry, Dr Ramaswamy said. The blood is squeezed in an electronically controlled sequence to improve circulation and provide a better supply of oxygen-rich blood to the heart. "Besides opening treatment centres that will have facilities including non-invasive therapies like Enhanced External Counter Pulsation, we are planning to start an online registry for heart failure," he said.The EECP, for instance, uses a series of inflatable pads attached to a patient 's legs to force blood back to the heart.

CHENNAI: Heart diseases continue to kill millions of people in India despite public health initiatives and advances in medical technology, but the country still does not have statistics on the prevalence of heart failure The Gleneagles Global Hospitals has launched an advanced heart failure treatment programme to identify the prevalence of heart failure among Indians.All heart disease, as it progresses, results in heart failure, or a gradual weakening of the heart. Patients commonly experience difficult breathing, extreme fatigue and swelling of their legs and abdomen.Heart failure is the leading cause of hospital admissions among those older than 65 years of age annually, said Gleneagles Global Hospitals associate director Dr R Ravikumar."Besides opening treatment centres that will have facilities including non-invasive therapies like Enhanced External Counter Pulsation, we are planning to start an online registry for heart failure," he said.The EECP, for instance, uses a series of inflatable pads attached to a patient 's legs to force blood back to the heart. The blood is squeezed in an electronically controlled sequence to improve circulation and provide a better supply of oxygen-rich blood to the heart."It is an out-patient therapy where a patient has to spend about an hour for about 35 days in the hospital," said Dr S Ramaswamy, director Vaso Meditech Private Limited, who has been offering the service to patients in government hospitals. In the past three years, more than 2000 patients have undergone EECP therapy, but statistics of their outcome would be released after government consent, he said.Former state health secretary VK Subburaj, who inaugurated the programme, said in 2000 the World Health Organisation predicted that India would be a world leader in heart diseases by 2015. "We are now in 2017, but still we do not know the prevalence of heart diseases. An online registry is the need of the hour," he said.At least 11 government medical college hospitals and ten tertiary care private hospitals would be a part of the registry, Dr Ramaswamy said.

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