Fortis Hospitals Key Press Coverages For Nov,2010

For nine months, The Nest offers you superlative care in a homely and caring environment. The TLC Privilege Package is tailored to make your long wait special. Our ante-natal program prepares you and your spouse both physically and emotionally for the birth of the baby. Our LDRP and elegant birthing suites are designed to make your stay during delivery memorable.

Women care at Fortis Hospitals ,Bannerghata Road,Bangalore launched in 2007 is a culmination of strengths has a 30,000 sq. ft. area is exclusively dedicated to Women care with consultation suites, delivery rooms, operating rooms, dedicated to obstetrics, a 12-bed neo-natal ICU & a nursery. Our Women health care programmes, besides minimal access gynecological services, also include preventive clinics (early diagnosis of breast, uterine, ovarian and cervical cancer), Infertility clinics & Menopausal clinics.

The Nest Birthing Package provides the Following

• The Nest Birthing Suit for Birthing and delivery
• LDRP birthing suites, Private deluxe, Twin-deluxe and multi-bed
• Painless deliveries
• Management of high risk pregnancies/Late pregnancies
• The Lamaze Classes
• Ante-natal classes

We emphasize on natural birthing and provide you support services like Lamaze and ante-natal classes. We give you the option of comfortable natural birthing with painless delivery techniques. The boutique-like comfort comes to you with the quality and safety standards of the Fortis Hospitals Group. The Nest is part of Fortis Hospitals Woman Care Specialty

At the core of each service at The Nest, is the safety of the mother-to-be and the child. The Nest, being a part of Fortis Hospitals, adheres to Harvard Medical International (HMI) standards in safety and quality. We offer clinical expertise that is comparable to the best in the world and cutting-edge technology in diagnostics and treatment.

Types of Rooms The Nest offers you a wide range of rooms. Besides the LDRP suites, we have Private Deluxe, Twin Deluxe and Multi-bed facilities for the new mother’s-to-be. Private Deluxe Rooms have luxurious interiors and more privacy. The walls and fine finish give it a warm feel. The rooms are spacious for the family to relax in. Twin Deluxe rooms are on sharing basis. Each room has an attached bathroom and a screen to provide families the privacy they need. Multi-bed rooms are economical options and have the provision to accommodate 3 patients. These are spacious rooms with an attached bathroom. LDRP Suites (Labor Deliver Recovery Postpartum) LDRP suites are a premium offering here. The LDRP suites are a class apart in style and functionality. These suites come with luxurious interiors and the latest equipment and techniques for delivery. More Details Lamaze Classes The Nest encourages medically approved methods, like Lamaze (breathing techniques & exercises for pregnant woman) and yoga to facilitate natural birthing (normal delivery). More Details The Nest Ante Natal Program Our ante-natal program is designed to make you feel cared for and safe. It is much beyond a regular doctor’s consultation. More Details Fetal Medicine Unit What is Fetal Medicine? Fetal medicine is a new branch of medicine that includes the assessment of fetal growth and well being, the maintenance of fetal health and the diagnosis of fetal illnesses and abnormalities. More Details Neonatal Intensive Care Unit The Nest has a 12-bed NICU and a nursery that is fully equipped to handle all types of emergencies. Experts specially trained in NICU care manage newborns. More Details High Risk Pregnancy Every pregnancy has some risks, but the presence of certain conditions increases the risks manifold. These risks could endanger the life and health of the mother or the baby. More Details Natural Birthing (Normal delivery) The Nest promotes natural birthing. We believe each woman has inherent strengths to deliver her baby naturally, unless a health condition poses risks to her and the baby. Our Woman Care professionals help you prepare for the birth from the second trimester onwards. We encourage you to learn Lamaze and yoga. The involvement of the spouse in this process is important. Pain relief during labor The Nest is one of the few advanced centers in the country to offer epidural anesthesia for painless natural delivery. We have a dedicated and experienced team of medical professionals that assesses each patient and decides the type of pain relief she requires. The pain relief program is highly individualized. Our pain relief team comprises an anesthesiologist (an expert in conducting pain less delivery) and gynecologists experienced in conducting high risk pregnancies Blood Bank The blood bank is an integral part of any hospital and extends great support and strength to surgical and trauma departments. Sometimes blood transfusion is required during delivery and having a blood bank under the same roof is a big bonus. The Fortis Hospitals blood bank operates round-the-clock and meets the high standards of screening and preservation of samples.

The Fortis Hospitals Group has an exclusive association with HMI in India.The Nest enjoys the backing of Fortis’s five core super-specialties. We give you a wide choice of eminent obstetricians and gynecologists and specialists from other disciplines.

Watch out for subtle hints that your heart might give and you can overlook. Apart from coronary artery disease, which is common among the middle and upper age groups, heart rhythm disorders or arrhythmia is one of the leading causes of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). So much so that it has prompted Fortis Hospitals to launch a clinic solely dedicated to arrhythmia.

According to electro physiologist, Fortis Hospitals, Dr Shashidhar, the heartbeat rhythm is regulated by a complex electrical system. Any desynchronization in the rhythm can lead to heart failure. When there is such irregularity, the heart either beats faster or slower than usual. One can develop a heart rhythm disturbance if any part of this conduction system is damaged. Heart rhythm disturbance usually shows up symptoms like skipped heartbeat, fluttering, dizziness, and shortness of breath, periodic weakness or even sudden fainting. Sometimes if there is such a ventricular fibrillation condition, the patient could die in three minutes.

Chief cardiothoracic surgeon Vivek Jawali said in 1984 when he came to Bangalore, these disorders were usually corrected by placing a pacemaker. “Now there is a new breed of cardiologists who deal with various kinds of short-circuiting in the heart. The science to deal with such rhythm disorders has come a long way,” he said.

The causes for this kind of disease are many, including extra wires or accessory pathways inside the heart, abnormality in the electrical firing process, a diseased heart, valvular heart disease, congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy and others. Strangely, a sudden emotional outburst or drug abuse and even electrolyte disturbances could cause the problem. It also doesn’t affect a particular age group and could manifest even when the baby is in the feotus or in an old man.

This clinic will feature a 3D mapping system to check the problems of the heart and will provide services like electrophysiology study and radiofrequency ablation, complex arrhythmia ablation, implantation of pacemakers, defibrillators, biventricular pacemakers, loop recorders, head up tilt table test, pacemaker and heart failure clinics and others.

Read more: Heart rhythm disorders on the rise – The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Heart-rhythm-disorders-on-the-rise/articleshow/6702574.cms#ixzz12EhgjLNA

The  Indian Super  Bug ” NDM” New Delhi Metallo -1 has failed to scare medical tourists coming to India for Treatments. According to Sarita Rai of Global Post.

The Big , bad superbug resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics, and it’s allegedly making the rounds of medical establishments in India, and even in the developed world, causing all sorts of problems and scaring the dickens out of everyone.  Everyone, that is, except the thousands of Westerners who are still flocking to India to get their world-class, extremely affordable medical care. “India is a great option. I spent only half of what I would have back home,” said Meece, who hails from Memphis.”

NDM-1 makes bacteria highly resistant to almost all antibiotics, including the most powerful class called carbapenems, and experts say there are no new drugs on the horizon to tackle it. A garden variety bacteria that invades the intestine, causing diarrhea, or the bladder, causing a urinary tract infection, has now acquired a gene (NDM-1) that renders it resistant to almost all antibiotics.

In a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal on Wednesday, Walsh’s team found that NDM-1 is becoming more common in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan and is also being imported back to Britain in patients returning after treatment.

Rodney Schaubroeck, 48, a San Francisco nativ is one such patient who  arrived in Fortis Hospitals,Bangalore ,in the middle of August for heart surgery, just as news of the superbug began to break. Schaubroeck, fully covered by an insurance provider in Indianapolis, Ind., was offered a choice by his insurer: return home to San Francisco to get his mitral valve repaired or come to India with his wife, all expenses paid for three weeks, and take home a part of his insurer’s savings..

Rodney is happy that he choose India..

Fellowship in Critical Care Anesthesia

Duration : 18 months

Eligibility: MD (Anesth)/ DA

Commencing : July 2010

Interview date  10th July

The fellowship will create anesthesiologist with experience in critical care and handling life threatening emergencies.

The first six months of the tenure will be spent in cardiac surgical operation theatre with firsthand experience in insertion of invasive monitoring lines.The second six months will be spent in postoperative cardiac surgical care learning management of arrythmias,treatment with ionotropic drugs. The last six months will be in general intensive care with experience on handling pneumonias,sepsis,trauma etc.

2)Fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia

Duration: 18 months

Eligibility :MD (anesth)

Commencing :July 2010

Interview date 10th July

Please  send your completed applications to kshitija.kulkarni@fortishospitals.in

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An attractive monthly sitpend will be paid during the course. This Fellowship is recognized by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.”