Dr. Subhadeep Das, Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist at Narayana Super-specialty Hospital, Howrah, discusses the growing issue of ...

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Congenital Heart Disease in Children: Early Signs, Diagnosis &amp; Treatment

[Music] namaste do treat hi I'm a pediatric cardiac intensivist at narana Super Speciality Hospital H congenital heart diseases are a great problem in India and worldwide in India unfortunately the awareness is still low although it has to be said that people are becoming more more cognizant and more aware about this problem so if you suspect your kid is suffering from a heart condition if you see that he is suffering from recurrent respiratory infections um recurrent difficulty in breathing right from the time of birth inability to gain weight then I think it's very essential to seek pediatricians Health as soon as possible many of times when these patients are referred to a cardiac center they are found to have cardiac problems most of these cardiac problems nowadays can be fixed by very advanced form of cardiac surgeries which have excellent results as well as micro surgeries which do give very good results also sometimes however because these surgeries are very intense in the postoperative period the children can become really sick so they need a lot of attention in the ICU a lot of care in the ICU sometimes they become so sick that they sometimes require the help of uh an uh an advanced form of life support therapy called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO but if properly used then children can absolutely come out of the ICU even if they are on ECMO they can come out of that life support therapy and can have a completely normal life so as I said that identifying children with congenital heart diseases referring them to appropriate centers for treatment is the need of the art and if appropriately referred if appropriately identified then we can reduce the mortality in under five children and also in infants to a great extent thank you [Music] oh

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