What
looked impossible or as a dream a few years back, it is now become a
reality.Many of your patients, can now, live a normal life or a much
better life electrically. The following are a few examples:-
| 1. |
Parkinson’s
Disease : Patients of Parkinsonism, who have become resistant
to drugs, can now be operated upon and with a sub-thalamic stimulation,
can live a much better and a near normal life for years. You
might have seen a couple of such patients. You can motivate
such patients, explaining them that the cost of these modern
interventional procedures is as much as interventional cardiac
procedures or a bypass surgery. |
| 2. |
Heart
: A number of people, who used to die in the past because of
varying degrees of heart block, or bad cases of sick sinus syndrome,
or neuro cardiogenic syncopes, or tachy arrhythmias can now
lead a near normal life with the help of pacemakers. Similarly,
patients of advanced cardiac failure, not responding to drugs,
can live on biventricular pacing. |
| 3. |
Kidneys
: Patients of chronic renal failure, who ultimately have to
go on long term dialysis, will certainly need electricity to
live. Therefore, such patients, especially those living in the
remote parts of India, where there is no electricity, will have
to shift to cities, where there are no electricity problems,
though peritoneal dialysis remains an alternative for these
patients. |
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