Nuss Procedure India – Surgeon Interview

Nuss procedure in India is significantly cheaper than in many western countries. The country is home to many experienced surgeons who have international work experience. Check out what this expert in nuss procedure surgery says about his experience.

Following is the video narration.

Education and Expertise of Nuss Procedure Surgeon, India

“Basic education from Bhopal, MBBS. Post graduation and residency from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and a fellowship in thoracic surgery from Korea University medical centre in Seoul. During this period I have mastered one technique, that’s the pectus excavatum surgery.

After my education I worked at a few places in India, that’s in Shillong, it’s in the eastern part of India. I was working there as a professor in surgery and after that I had again gone out for my fellowship in South Korea. So I was there working in Korea University of Medical Centre.

Regarding the procedures and thoracic surgery, our emphasis has been mainly on minimal access procedure, that’s what you call as thoracoscopy. We do assisted thoracic surgery. So basically we are dealing with all cases of thoracic diseases, there is bone benign and malignant excluding the heart. Our focus is on lung surgery using the minimal access technique, then other conditions of chest wall that’s very importantly I would say “pectus excavatum surgery” which I think not many centers are doing in the world. There are few selected centres.

Minimal Invasive Sunken Chest Procedure

In the Pectus excavatum we are doing the minimal access technique which is a modified nuss procedure so this technique we are able to correct defects which are both symmetrical and difficult one that is called asymmetrical defects, which is a complex thing. So we offer these to both – the pediatric group as well as the teenager group and also in selected cases for the adult patients. This is a technique which has evolved over time and we are using the least invasive and a very safe procedure which is a modified technique using endoscopy.

Doing my mentorship that time, there were many patients from the US side, Canada, China, from Japan and of course a lot from south East Asia because they were not able to find much centres in their own places who could give a very good results, because not everybody’s practicing this minimal access technique. We have the hole technique that sort of each technique which is open surgery, that is more commercial, more morbid. So most of the patients who had pediatric age group. Its basically 50-50, pediatric age groups and teenager groups. The teenagers were mainly who were ……….in early stages and once they have reached the age of teenage, they realize that they have got some defects because it is the defects, its not just cosmetic, its physiological as well as psychological. There are three things we have….. – Cosmetic, physiologically it restricts the function of the lungs; psychologically the impact is on the person. He is shy, he doesn’t mingle up, he has got a complex in him. It’s basically a disease which has got three components, again I would say – cosmetic is differently what you all think about but there are two other aspects. One is physiological and psychological part.”