Dr. Sushant Srivastava — Chairperson of CTVS (Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery) in Delhi NCR

Dr. Sushant Srivastava is Chairperson of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at Paras Hospitals, Gurugram, in Delhi NCR, with more than 32 years of experience. His profile records cardiac surgery together with vascular surgery.

His list is among the widest on this platform. The cardiac work covers coronary artery bypass grafting, including beating heart and awake techniques, redo bypass and redo valve surgery, valve repair and replacement, double valve replacement, minimally invasive and awake cardiac procedures, LVAD implantation and heart transplant surgery. The aortic and vascular work covers aortic root replacement and aneurysm surgery including hybrid and endovascular repairs, and varicose vein surgery. Surgery for congenital heart defects is also on the list.

Four entries on his record are firsts or extremes. He was part of the first heart transplant team in the country and has extensive transplant experience. He performed the first stitch-less valve implantation in India in 2015, and north India's first awake CABG surgery in 2006. He has also performed bypass surgery on the oldest recorded patient in the country, at 96 years old, and his record notes successful repair of cardiac ruptures and aortic aneurysms.

Awake cardiac surgery is the unusual thread there, since it means operating without general anaesthesia, and it appears twice on his record: once as a first and once as part of his routine list.

Both of his degrees, the MS in general surgery and the MCh in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, were taken at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. He was awarded Rising Star in Cardiac Surgery in 2018.