Have a Heart: Lessons a Cardiologist learned | Dr. Jose Chacko Periappuram | TEDxThiruvananthapuram

Dr. Jose Chacko Periappuram, performed the first heart transplantation in Kerala and the first heart re-transplantation in India. He has participated in more than 15,000 heart surgeries and has independently performed more than 10,000 surgeries. He is also the Chairman of "Heart Care Foundation", a charitable trust that financially assists poor heart patients and aims to educate the common people about the heart diseases. He has not only helped to establish open heart surgery as a commonly done procedure in Kerala, but has also helped various governmental hospitals in Kerala to establish heart surgery facilities. In this talk, he shares his experience about the relevance of heart donation and the experience he has had in his position as a leading cardiac surgeon. Dr. Jose Chacko Periappuram performed the first successful Heart Transplant in Kerala making it the third state in India to achieve this feat. He also performed the first ever successful Heart re-transplant in India when a patient developed complications within 9 months of the first transplant. He is credited with other achievements like first beating heart and awake bypass surgeries in Kerala and has performed a total of 11 heart transplants. He has participated in more than 15,000 heart surgeries and has independently performed more than 10,000 surgeries. He is also the Chairman of "Heart Care Foundation", a charitable trust that financially assists heart patients He has helped set up various governmental hospitals in Kerala to establish heart surgery facilities. For his contribution to the medical sciences, he received the ‘Padma Shri’, the 4th highest civilian honor. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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