surgery spanning over 18 hours witnessed 15 doctors from various disciplines achieving the featwith

Dr Thiagarajan Srinivasan and Dr Kailash A Jain who headed the multidisciplinary team of doctors at MGM Healthcare said, “There were multiple challenges in pulling of this extraordinary feat in the form of massive blood loss during and after surgery, high risk for heart attack and arrhythmias during and after surgery, post-operative management of blood clotting. However, to save Mr Ashok it would be virtually impossible either to have liver transplant alone or heart surgery alone as the risk was very high. He enumerated that multiple meetings of all the team members were held before surgery so that the coordination was perfect like coordinated action formula 1 car pit stop crew and virtual combined surgical plan was rehearsed before doing the actual surgery. Now six months after the surgery the patient is doing well. He further said the facilities and resources required for performing two major surgeries together are not commonly available even in best of centres and can only be performed in advanced centres