Vipin Balakrishnan

• Company Overview: This is an 800 bedded quaternary care hospital where majority of cardiac work includes CABG (on pump/off pump), Valve replacement/repair procedures, Aortic aneurysm repairs, Complex aortic root surgeries. The annual turnover of surgical patients under CTVS is approx 500-600 cases.
• Expertise with major cardiac surgeries -Coronary bypass, Valve replacement, ASD repair, ascending aortic aneurysm repair.
• Expertise with ECMO (V-A and V-V)
• Expertise with independently handling majority emergency (Trauma) and elective vascular surgeries (POVD / Peripheral Aneurysm / embolectomy)
• Experienced in independently handling majority Thoracic trauma (blunt & open chest, Sternal fractures and Flail chest fixation) & elective thoracotomies.
• Have associated with Uniportal VATS - Decortication/pleurodesis/bullectomy/lobectomy/wedge resection.
• Expertise with A-V Fistula creation, Management of vascular steal for dialysis patients.
• Experience as first assistant in MICS-MVR/ASD Closure/AVR/CABG
• Evaluation and management for mediastinal tumours- thymoma/posterior mediastinal mass.
• Expertise with Thoracoscopy /Medastinoscopy for diagnostic and therapeutic purpose .

• Elective and emergency general surgical procedures.
• Trauma management.
• G.I surgeries/ Throidectomy / Breast surgeries / Abdominal Malignancy.

• Participated in various health camps, immunization programs, implementing palliative care, daycare OPD service to rural population and health education programs.

Triaging the medical and surgical emergencies and management of minor trauma including primary wound management. Initial optimization of acute emergencies .