A two year old baby underwent successful permanent pace maker implantation within an hour of admission and the procedure was completed in 20 minutes at Ankur Maitrika Hospital.
The operation was done by Dr. Syed Maqbool, Dr. Nasir Ali Choudhary and cardiac anesthetist Dr. Rasmeet Kour.
This was the first of its kind surgery in Jammu.
Dr. Syed Maqbool said: “All cardiologists across Jammu are doing a lot of good work but our focus has to be on complex procedures for which a lot of people have to go outside Jammu which is cumbersome to all and particularly to poor patients.”
The baby visited Ankur Maitrika Hospital with recurrent cardiac arrests and her ECG showed a complete heart block with a very slow ventricular rate, incompatible with life if not treated promptly.
She had a hole in heart from birth called ventricular septal defect and had undergone an open heart surgery in PGI Chandigarh when she was 8 months old.
A handout of the Hospital stated that without implantation of a pacemaker death is usually inevitable in such cases, but pace maker implantation at such an age is not easy and a very complex procedure compared to adults and has to be carried out very skillfully and carefully taking into consideration the future growth of the child.
