Cardio-Thoracic Sciences Centre

Prof. Anita Saxena

Chief, Cardio-Thoracic Sciences Centre

Dr. Anita Saxena is a renowned cardiologist with expertise in pediatric cardiology. She has over 33 years of experience and is serving as a full professor since 1998, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, a premier institute in India. She has published extensively in reputed national and international journals and has over 310 papers to her credit. She has been President of Asia Pacific Pediatric Cardiac Society, Pediatric Cardiac Society of India, and National Rheumatic Heart Consortium and is a member of a number of national and international society societies, including fellowship of American College of Cardiology.

She is also a member of several international groups dealing with global burden of rheumatic heart disease. Dr Saxena is the Co-Chair of the Working Group of Task Force on Rheumatic Heart Disease, set up by the World Heart Federation.

Introduction

Cardiothoracic Sciences Centre began functioning in the new building in 1982. The Centre has 200 beds exclusively for Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery with all the ancilliary facilities required for comprehensive care for all cardiovascular disorders. In 1986 the Centre became fully independent and functioned entirely from the new 7 floor building. The Cardiothoracic Sciences Centre has the following departments.

• Cardiology
• Cardiac Anaesthesiology
• Cardiac Pathology
• Cardiac Radiology
• Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery
• Cardiac Biochemistry
• ORBO & Stem Cell Facility
• Hospital Administration (CNC)
• Nuclear Medicine
• Blood Transfusion Services (BTS, CNC)

Professor N. Gopinath was the founder and first Chief of Cardiothoracic Centre. He was followed by Professor M.L. Bhatia, Professor R. Tandon , Professor P. Venugopal, Professor A. Sampath Kumar, Professor Balram Airan and currently Professor Vinay Kumar Bahl.

There are eight fully equipped operating rooms with the state-of-art technology to carry out all kinds of complex cardiothoracic and vascular procedures 24X7 through out the year accessible and affordable to everyone. Total bed capacity (136) under CTVS in General ward is distributed in 1^st, 4^th, 5^th and 6^thfloors of Cardiothoracic sciences center of which

• 1^st floor comprises of eight CTVS Operating Rooms complex along with two intensive care units with 34 beds and 8 beds exclusively for the neonatal and infant intensive care.

• 5^th floor (CT5 ward) consists of dedicated step-down high dependency unit with 38 beds.

• 6^th floor (CT6 ward) consists of 12 beds exclusively for the neonatal, infants and pediatric cardiac surgical care.

• 4^th floor consists of 44 beds for the general cardiac surgical care.

• Two beds in CT 5 and CT 4 wards are kept exclusively ready always to manage preoperative and post operative Cardiac Transplant Patients.

• In addition, there are 14 private rooms (paying wards) both for Cardiology and Cardiovascular surgery in C.N.Tower.

• The office of the faculty are on the 7^th floor, CT Center.

• Contact Number: 011-2659-4835; 011-2659-3373

Dept. of CTVS

Dept. of Cardiology

List of Faculty Members in the Department of Cardiology

Deptt. of Cardiac-Anaesthesia

Deptt. of Cardiac Pathology

Deptt. of Cardiac Radiology

Deptt. of Cardiac Biochemistry

ORBO & Stem Cell Facility

Hospital Administration (CNC)

Deptt. of Nuclear Medicine