Heart attacks can be estimated very earlier with calcium score: Dr Ramesh

 Ongole: With the availability of the technology now, the doctors can easily estimate the chance of heart attack to a person by calculating the calcium score in the heart veins and offer related treatment to the patient, said Dr Ramesh Babu Pothineni, managing director of Ramesh Hospitals.

He participated in a formal meeting in Ongole to announce the partnership with the local Sanghamitra Hospitals on Friday and said that they are extending all specialties in the group hospitals at Vijayawada and Guntur now to Sanghamitra Hospital in Ongole. 

He said that sharing equipment and infrastructure between hospitals will reduce the cost of quality treatment to the patients. He explained that one in three deaths in the world can be preventable, if the person is given treatment in the golden hour. He announced that with the help of senior doctors in various departments like cardiology, neurology, nephrology etc, the group hospitals will be able to share expertise of all of them wherever required and see the patient gets best treatment at low bills.

He opined that the people from Prakasam district are prone to kidney diseases more and they are about to offer kidney and liver transplantation service in Ongole soon. 

He said that they already have a telemedicine center at Markapur and is planning to extend them all over district so that the patient in emergency can get the treatment started with few minutes of the stroke. He announced that they are trying to achieve zero error and zero grievance treatment record and trained all staff to recheck to minute errors including typing mistakes.

The senior cardiologist explained that they had already treated 700 plus children including a 4 day old baby and saved them by providing devices and conducting surgeries. He asked the mothers to immediately take the children to doctor if they observe the children turn to blue, slow in drinking milk or increasing heartbeat when they carry them. He said that anyone can get a heart disease now and about 45 percent people they treat do not have any complaint of diabetes or hypertension. 

In their experience, he confessed that the ECG or treadmill test are not solely dependable to estimate the heart condition. He said that if the calcium levels in the veins are 30 below percent, they can treat the patient completely before he get a heart attack 10 years later.