When should we discharge the patient after primary PCI?
In this video, Dr. Viveka Kumar, Senior Director - Cath Lab, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, will discuss when to discharge the patient after primary PCI in this video. Patients who are on medical management should be discharged after one week. Those patients who are thrombolyzed are discharged after four days and after primary PTCA, the patient can be discharged after 48 hours. Patients with acute MI without any complications and are treated within three hours are discharged after 48 hours.
Dr. Viveka Kumar
Dr. Viveka Kumar is a Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Director of the Cath Lab at Max Super Speciality Hospital in Saket, New Delhi. He completed his MBBS and MD (Medicine) from IMS (BHU), Varanasi and later obtained the DM (Cardiology) postdoc, superspeciality degree through GSVM Medical College, Kanpur. Has extensive experience in the field of Cardiac interventions and Electrophysiology. Specializes in complex angioplasties including multivessel, bifurication and left main angioplasties with Rota Ablation, FFR, IVUS, IABP, IMPELLA devices. Has done more than 7500 angioplasties and 2500 balloon valvotomies with good outcomes.
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