New Lifeline Hospital launched in Zirakpur equipped with ECMO Facility

Zirakpur: New Lifeline Superspeciality Hospital was inaugurated here today along with the launch of Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) facility. The facility was launched by Dr Muneesh Goel (MCH, CTVS).
In his inaugural speech, Dr Praveer Goel, Managing Director, New Lifeline Superspeciality Hospital said, “ECMO is the ultimate life saving therapy in the world today available at very high end selected centers worldwide. This is a form of extra corpeal life support, where an external artificial circulator carries venous blood from the patient to a gas exchange device (Oxygenator) where blood is enriched with Oxygen and its Carbon Dioxide gets removed. This blood then re-enters the patient’s blood circulation.”

While addressing the media, Dr Rachit Duggal, MD – Anaesthesia said, “ECMO is truly the new standard of care in any critical care setting. It provides chances of survival in cases of heart failure, lung failure where patient would have otherwise certainly died in absence of ECMO support. It is suitable for the patients who are hypoxaemic despite maximal conventional ventilatory support, have significant ventilator-induced lung injury, are in cardiogenic shock or who are in respiratory failure. The basic premise is that ECMO will allow the level of ventilatory support to be reduced, which allows time for recovery from the underlying pathology and recovery from ventilator-induced lung injury to occur.”

New Lifeline Hospital is a corporate hospital ideally located at the entry of Chandigarh on the Ambala-Chandigarh National Highway-22 at Zirakpur. Built over approx. 10000 sq ft area equipped with 50-bedded facility with a Triage Room, recovery bed and ortho OT with C Arm with modern cardiac catheterisation lab (Siemen’s) an echocardiography lab, Treadmill, Holter and Pulmonary Function Tests equipments. There is 20 bedded intensive coronary care unit and  a  2 single room monitored beds included step down coronary care unit.

New LifelineHospital is to provide ethical, competent and state of art medical care to its clients in a transparent manner. Care is provided at affordable cost with strict quality control. Apart from service to patients, teaching and applied research shall be additional function. There is a small teaching auditorium. The patients are taken care of by qualified cardiologists and one of them is always available in the premises round the clock. Intensive Care Unit is equipped with the latest and state-of-the-art facilities, centralized monitoring and centralized medical gas system and other Hospital support systems.