Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad recently performed the first coronary angioplasty in India, using Abbott’s recently launched fully absorbable stent-also called the bioresorbable vascular scaffold (ABSORB – BVS). It is the first drug-eluting, fully bioresorbable device made of polylactide, a naturally dissolvable material commonly used in dissolving sutures.

ClearWay™ RX – Rapid exchange therapeutic perfusion catheter helps save larger area of heart muscle in heart attacks.
Cardiac interventionists have now veered round to the view that it is not sufficient to bust the big clot that produces a heart attack; ensuring that the small vessels supply blood to the heart muscle is just as crucial.

Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, installed a first-of-its-kind cutting edge technology bioMerieux’s MALDI-TOF-VITEK ® MS system in India – a rapidly automated microbial identification system that identifies disease-causing microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi so that correct diagnosis and early treatment is achieved.

The First International Patient Safety Congress was inaugurated today at HICC, Hyderabad. Hosted by the Apollo Hospitals Group, the two-day conference was inaugurated by Ms Preetha Reddy, MD, Apollo Hospitals Group. This Congress was organized by Apollo Hospitals Group in concert with Johnson & Johnson, Philips, Quality Council of India, Joint Commission International, National Patient Safety Foundation, Indian Medical Association – Hyderabad Chapter, FICCI, APNA, Astron Consultancy, Medvarsity and other reputed organizations.

On World Trauma Day (17th October 2012), Apollo Children’s Hospital dedicated a state of the art trauma care centre to save little lives, Thiru. Rajendran, Additional Director General of Police, Tamilnadu formally inaugurated the centre today. Apollo Children’s Centre for Trauma (ACCT), equipped with high tech medical equipments and expertise (physicians and surgeons across anesthesiology and critical care medicine, emergency medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, plastic surgery and radiology) will provide 24X7 trauma care for children with severe and life threatening injuries.

Hosted by the Apollo Hospitals Group along with a consortium of Healthcare IT Companies, the Second Conference on Transforming Healthcare with IT was inaugurated on April 22nd, 2011 at HICC, Hyderabad, by Ms Preetha Reddy, MD, Apollo Hospitals Group.

Enterprise Asia’s “Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Awards”” program (AREA), South Asia 2012 has honoured Dr.Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group with the prestigious “”Responsible Business Leader” Award !
The Responsible Business Leader Award is awarded to an iconic individual who is a role model in advocating and promoting all aspects of Responsible Entrepreneurship in building the business.

Veer Patel‘s family members were shattered when they came to know the cost of his treatment. There was no way a farmer from Dabhoi who reared his joint family of 10 members on rotating crop of maize and lentil could shell out Rs 10 to 12 lakh for a stem cell transplant for his son diagnosed with thalassemia major.

The Plastic & Reconstruction Surgical team at Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Chennai has added another milestone to Apollo Hospitals by successfully conducting exultant Micro vascular free tissue transfer and Aesthetic surgeries on more than 1000 patients by the end of March 2011.

The highly-skilled medical teams at Apollo Hospitals, frontrunners in harnessing the symbiosis of technology and medical advancements have now successfully performed the World’s 1st iPod Navigation Hip Resurfacing Surgery at Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Chennai. They were also the third in the world to perform a Knee Replacement Surgery using the iPod Navigation technique.