First radial lounge for daycare angiography and angioplasty at SSB Hospital Faridabad
U nion Minister Krishan Pal Gurjar recently inaugurated the first radial lounge for heart angiography and angioplasty in Delhi-NCR at SSB Heart and Multispeciality Hospital , Faridabad. Dr SS Bansal, CMD and senior interventional cardiologist at the hospital, prefers to do all the procedures through radial route. It is a procedure done to find out whether there are blocks in the vessels that carry blood to the heart muscles. Usually, it is done as an inpatient procedure in almost all hospitals. But with this launch, patients, who need angiography and angioplasty, can enjoy the ease of the radial lounge without getting admitted to the intensive care unit. They can relax on luxury couches, watch the radial angiography procedure, get their radial angiography and angioplasty done in the presence of their one attendant and go home the same day. ADVANTAGES OF THIS FACILITY • It will help the patients save significant money as they can get the procedure on a daycare basis and go home imm