Facilities :

• Tertiary trauma centre with a trauma team, including neurosurgery, orthopedics, general surgery and anesthesiology
• Emergency operation theatre.
• Ventilators, cardiac monitors, biphasic defibrillator and all the emergency equipments and drugs required to handle every emergency.
• Mobile X-Ray unit and CT
• The hospital offers 24/7 ambulance services.
• 24-hour pharmacy

JOINT REPLACEMENT SURGERY AT SHREE HOSPITALS:

Shree hospitals is the best place to have joint replacement surgery in Odisha. Two of the main promoters of the hospitals are Orthopaedic Surgeons and they are Specialists in Joint Replacement Surgery. Dr. Ravi Sankar’s Joint Replacement centre’s is a unit within the Shree Hospitals. The unit has got the infrastructure and facilities for Joint Replacement Surgery including purpose built Operation Theatre.

Chief Joint Replacement Surgeon Dr. Ravi Sankar Katragadda is one of the most experienced Joint Replacement Surgeons from South India. He has about 25 Yrs of experienced in Orthopaedic Surgery and about 19 Yrs of experience in Joint Replacement Surgery. After completion of his masters degree in Orthopaedics he worked as registrar at MIOT, Chennai and left for the UK in 1992.

He worked in the UK for about 12 Yrs in various capacities and obtained higher qualifications like FRCS and MCh (Ortho) and returned to India in 2004. He has been doing Joint Replacements since 1995 and has done more than two thousand Joint Replacement Surgeries. He has started and popularized Joint Replacement Surgeries in Coastal Andhra pradesh particularly in Vishakhapatnam.

He performed Joint Replacement Surgeries on patients aged from 23 Yrs to over 86Yrs. There are huge number of patients in Andhrapradesh and Orissa enjoying their life again after having Joint Replacement Surgery by Dr. Ravi Sankar Katragadda.

Dr. Debadatta Kumar Sahu is also part of the Joint Replacement Surgery team and he worked for about 5 Yrs in RML Hospital in Delhi and has got an overall experience of 14 Yrs in Orthopaedic Surgery. There are 3 experienced anaesthetists in the team and they take part in the management of Joint Replacement patients at every stage. The patients are evaluated before surgery by anaesthetist, physician and cardiologist to make sure the patient is in best possible condition before operation. After operation also the anaesthetist regularly monitors the patient for safety and to make sure that there is no pain.

The physiotherapist teaches the patient about knee exercises before operation and starts exercises from first post operative day. The physiotherapist visits the patient for a minimum of two or three times a day. Physiotherapist assists and makes them walk and use the steps within 4 or 5 days after surgery without any support.

We have a team approach and provide holistic care to all the patients. The team includes physicians, cardiologists, intensivists, anaesthetist and nephrologist.

Operating Theatre:

The operating theatre is purpose built and dedicated for Joint Replacement Surgery. Every precaution is taken to reduce the risk of infection. The theatre’s floor, walls and roof are seamless and coated with epoxy resin.

The sterility of operation theatre is enhanced by laminar flow air circulation system. The air entering the theatre is filtered by HEPA filters ensuring germ free air in the theatre. Also the theatre is equipped with state of the art anaesthetic machine and diathermy machine etc.