Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery at the Apollo Hospitals, Health City Hyderabad
Can you please give us a brief history of the department when it was founded, its growth, key milestones etc?
The department of Plastic & Cosmetic surgery commenced in the year 1989. The expertise and skills of the consultants in this speciality has made the department strong and reliable in terms of the good results and the success rate achieved. Many a times the Doctors in this department have done the Hospital proud by operating on some rare and challenging cases, like Bilateral hand implant, Craniofacial Surgery, Neonatal (1 month) / Cleft surgery, etc. The expertise of the Doctors is quite evident from the types of complex cases they have performed with Good success rate.
Growth of the department has been an inseparable part of the journey, which has yielded the following Key milestones: In regard to cases per year were 80-100 cases in the year 1997 increased by about 10 times during 1998-2001 at the present done 1500 Cases are operated every year under the specialty.
The Key Milestones Being :-
Post - Trauma surgeries and reconstruction
Bilateral hand implant done for the first time in India - Twice
Large number of Craniofacial Surgery
Neonatal (1 month) / Cleft surgery
Neonatal (1 month) / Cleft surgery
Endoscopic Cosmetic Surgery
Large volume Lipo suction (more than 10 lts), etc.
Largest number of Micro Vascular Fibula Transfer.
Some more Key Milestones :-
Micro surgery as a discipline was started in the year 1997
We were one of the 3 / 4 centres in the country to start endoscopic plastic surgery in the year 2002
Cranio facial surgery - 1997
TMJ ankyolosis
Micro Surgery for Filarial leg
Cosmetic :-
Endoscopic (Cosmetic surgery ) face lifts / brow lifts
Endoscopic breast implants
Hair transplants
Advance body contouring surgery
Fat transplant
Advanced facial recontouring including endoscopic maseter reduction
Female genital rejuvenation surgery
Brachial plexus reconstructive micro surgery - 98
Is Your Department a Center of Excellence ?
Yes
Do You Have Expertise In All Areas of Specialty ?
Yes
Within these areas what would be the key specialties ?
Microsurgery
Craniofacial Surgery
Cosmetic and Anesthetic Surgery / Aesthetic surgery / microscopic hand surgery / endoscopic plastic surgery ( one of the first in the country )
Does you department closely work with any other medical department ?
Orthopaedics
Neuro-Surgery
Oncology
Emergency Medicine
Radiology
Why would a patient choose your medical department over that in any other hospital ?
A patient will choose our department over the ones in other hospitals, because of the following reasons : -
Good results.
Reputation of medical fraternity.
Good medical ethics.
Availability of all related specialties under one roof.
24 hour coverage and consultant availability. Good results / reputation of the medical facility / good medical ethics / all under once roof.
Most comprehensive range of services.
With innovation being our USP.
With a level of came that is unmatched.
The Sr.Consultants have international exposure which make their surgical skills on par with world standards.
What kind of cases do you handle (challenging, cannot be solved anywhere else, high risk, cutting edge / innovative etc.)? Can you give us examples ?
Apart from the regular Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery work the department specializes in the following rare and challenging surgeries :-
Microsurgery
Craniofacial
Bilateral hand implants
Endoscopic Cosmetic Surgery, etc
Could you give us an overview and examples of the some of the innovations undertaken by your department ?
With the help of the latest technological innovations - Lot of inpatient procedures which earlier required 2-3 days hospitalization have now been brought under the OP day care list - which has directly impact and reduced the patient stay days in the hospital.
Lot of In patient procedures have low been operated upon as OP-Day care surgery Post OP rehabilitation Care based physiotherapy
Composition
DNB in plastic surgery (Proposed)
Internation exp - Bio-data
President of society for reconstructive - India microsurgery 2002-04
Examiner for MCH plastic surgery
Non-Surgical treatment chemical peel face cosmetic procedure
Do you offer any support services for patients, their family members etc. ?
Exhaustive pre-operative and post operative, counseling to the patient and family members is extended based upon the tentative results, the risk attached to the procedure, etc.
Pre operation counseling / duration of stay / Family counseling holistic approach on counseling - post operative call to home to check how is the patient doing ? and other related thing.
Physio / splint making (for hands)
What are the post operative/ rehabilitation initiatives you offer your patients ?
Case based physiotherapy
If Necessary diet and rehabilitative counseling and advice
Pre operation counseling / duration of stay / Family counseling holistic approach on counseling - post operative call to home to check how is the patient doing? And other related thing
Physio / splint making (for hands)
Can you tell us about the kind of research and training initiatives undertaken by your department ?
Proposing to start DNB in Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery.
Hands on minds on - Annually workshop / Training programme for MBBS ( UG & PG)
Research work in the phase of project developments
MRCS trainees are routed through the dept for 3 months
Could you give us an overview and examples of the some of the innovations/ firsts undertaken by your department ?
The following are the firsts undertaken by this department : -
Bilateral hand implant done for the first time in India - Twice
Neonatal (1 month) / Clift surgery
Large volume Lipo suction (more than 10 lts), etc.
Endoscopic cosmetic plastic surgery
Please list in full the non-surgical treatments (if applicable) offered by your department (ex. Stenting, ablative techniques etc.) ?
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