81 year old bed ridden woman recovered well after brain tumor surgery

Panchkula: Neurosurgeons at Alchemist Hospital Panchkula performed a challenging brain surgery on an elderly patient. Dr Harsimrat Bir Singh Sodhi, Consultant Neurosurgery

at Alchemist, successfully operated on an 81yr old female patient and patient made a good recovery post-surgery.

Patient Kirtan Kaur, resident of Yamunanagar was admitted to Alchemist Hospital with complaints of weakness of right side of body along with headache. She was bedridden for three months and was diagnosed to have a large brain tumor on left side of brain, compressing the underlying brain tissue.

Dr Sodhi informed that tumor was completely removed without injury to underlying brain. The total operative time was less than two hours; patient was electively ventilated for just three hours post-surgery and was shifted out of ICU next day. She made a good clinical recovery including improvement in weakness on the right side and was discharged in healthy condition on 5th post-operative day.

Dr Sodhi further explained that surgery at this age entails special risks in view of low cardiac and respiratory reserve. Additionally, minimal blood loss at this age can have adverse outcome, which was significant in this patient since the tumor was highly vascular and there was a risk of extensive blood loss. With proper technique and good operation theater setup including high end microscope, this bleeding from tumor was well taken care of and total intraoperative blood loss was less than 500ml.

Dr Shilpa Chauhan Senior Consultant, Anaesthesia at Alchemist Hospital, who played an important role in the case said “safe anaesthesia  is always challenging, especially  in a 81 year old woman where body measures are  already compromised.  But with the best of   super specialty support, well equipped OT with best machines and well dedicated ICU team, we feel happy and proud for the best recovery”.