Medically incorrect to say Jaya died on Dec 4: AIIMS doctor
Siddharth.Prabhakar@timesgroup.com
Chennai:20.12.2018
It would be medically incorrect to say former chief minister J Jayalalithaa died on December 4, she died on December 5 as is in the medical records, Dr V Devagourou, cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), told theJustice AArumughaswamy commission on Wednesday.
The doctor made this statement in response to a question raised by Raja Senthoor Pandian, counselfor VK Sasikala,Jayalalithaa’s close aide. He was also examined by Apollo counsel Maimoona Badsha.
Dr Devagourou told the commission that he been involved in 25 ECMO procedures and that he had personally checked on the night of December 5, 2016 that there was no improvement in Jayalalithaa’s condition. Only after that, with consultation with the Apollo team of doctors, was she declared dead.
When he reached on December 5, Jayalalithaa’s body temperature was brought back to normal (she was kept at a lower temperature to preserve brain function) and he switched on and off the pacemaker to check for signs of life, which was the normal procedure, sources quotedhim assaying.Normally a patient is kept on ECMO for 24 hours, he said.
He also clarified on the cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and sternotomy procedure done on Jayalalithaa after she suffered a cardiac arrest on December 4 evening stating that the normal procedure was to do it in tandem, sources said.
In a related development, Apollo Hospitals moved a petition before the commission a day after Jayalalithaa’s hospital bill summary was ‘leaked’. Citing media reports, Apollo prayed for maintaining confidentiality of the documents.
Siddharth.Prabhakar@timesgroup.com
Chennai:20.12.2018
It would be medically incorrect to say former chief minister J Jayalalithaa died on December 4, she died on December 5 as is in the medical records, Dr V Devagourou, cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), told theJustice AArumughaswamy commission on Wednesday.
The doctor made this statement in response to a question raised by Raja Senthoor Pandian, counselfor VK Sasikala,Jayalalithaa’s close aide. He was also examined by Apollo counsel Maimoona Badsha.
Dr Devagourou told the commission that he been involved in 25 ECMO procedures and that he had personally checked on the night of December 5, 2016 that there was no improvement in Jayalalithaa’s condition. Only after that, with consultation with the Apollo team of doctors, was she declared dead.
When he reached on December 5, Jayalalithaa’s body temperature was brought back to normal (she was kept at a lower temperature to preserve brain function) and he switched on and off the pacemaker to check for signs of life, which was the normal procedure, sources quotedhim assaying.Normally a patient is kept on ECMO for 24 hours, he said.
He also clarified on the cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and sternotomy procedure done on Jayalalithaa after she suffered a cardiac arrest on December 4 evening stating that the normal procedure was to do it in tandem, sources said.
In a related development, Apollo Hospitals moved a petition before the commission a day after Jayalalithaa’s hospital bill summary was ‘leaked’. Citing media reports, Apollo prayed for maintaining confidentiality of the documents.
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