A city hospital conducted a complex cardiac surgery earlier this month, one in which the breathing tube was placed through the nose of the patient because his mouth had an extremely narrow opening. The case was particularly challenging, the hospital said, because of “a rare and high-risk airway condition” and needed constant coordination between the surgery and anaesthesia teams. This was followed by the heart surgery in which the damaged valve was replaced, and the hole in the heart was closed,” said Kaushik Mukherjee, consultant, cardiothoracic surgery at the hospital. Mukherjee led the cardiac surgery. Nilanjan Chakrabarty, a consultant in cardiac anaesthesia at the Dhakuria hospital, said conventional intubation was not an option due to the narrow opening.

Source: The Telegraph January 19, 2026 05:30 UTC