About the Department
The department was started in 1994 with the aim to provide comprehensive advice and preventive palliative emergency care from neonatal to act generation in one room. The department has the Goal to strive and not to yield in its efforts in making the department a “Centre of Excellence” and to create a rapport with other established centres in the world as partners in the process to establish a benchmark in the field of research, education, disease management and prevention of disease in cardiovascular medicine.
It caters to the needs of Neonatal, Pediatric, adult, senior citizen and octogenarian heart problems. The department has Outpatient Section, Intensive Care Section, In-patient area, noninvasive laboratory area, Invasive Laboratory Area and Emergency Care area which functions 24 X7 hours.
The department is equipped with state of the art equipment for diligent diagnosis and evidence-based treatment for multiple cardiac problems. This treatment is rendered by highly trained, committed, knowledgeable, skilled resource persons in Medical, Nursing, Paramedical technicians, Physician assistants etc., has resource persons.
Our Milestones:
- Leadless Pacemaker Implantation ( Micra Transcatheter Pacing System, the smallest of its kind and the first in South India), on 25th November 2016.
- First Successfull TAVI (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantaion) via Trans Aortic Route in the Country. A Boon to Valvular Heart Disease, on 29th September 2016.
- Three Heart transplants on consecutive days a rare feet, on 10th, 11th, 12th, August 2016.