Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology

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Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology

The Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology (SJIC) Bangalore, is a tertiary care autonomous institute run by the Government of Karnataka, in Bangalore. It presently has 530 inpatient beds for cardiology,cardiothoracic surgery and pediatric cardiology, spread over two twin eight story buildings and is considered one of the largest dedicated heart hospitals in Asia. The new building which was comissioned in 2001, was built at a cost of 17 million dollars[1]

Location: Bannerghatta road,Jayanagar, Bangalore

History: The original building for SJIC was located in Victoria Hospital complex[2], which is the main teaching hospital of the Bangalore Medical College, which forms the only governement run medical college in Bangalore.[3] The hospital shifted to its new buildings at Banerghatta road in 2001

Building layout: SJIC consist of twin eight story towers, with a separate facility for library and cathlabs. The emergency rooms are located in the basement with access from Bannerghatta road[[4]]

Out patient Departments: The hospital caters to approximately 165,000 patients a year and both cardiology, cardiothoracic and pediatric cardiology OPDs run Monday to Saturday from 9 am to 4 pm

In Patient facilities There are more than 500 in patient bed, spread over 8 floors and a two private wards

Intensive Care Units: SJIC has 3 cardiac intensive care units and 2 cardiothoracic units.In total the cardiology ICU bed number 42 and cardiothoracic beds are 24 Echocardiography lab The echo lab is one of the busiest in the state with an average daily echo turnover of 160 trans-thoracic echocardiograms and 10 trans-esophageal echocardiograms.

Interventional work Average interventional cardiology workload ranges between 50-60 cases a day of which 150-180 cases per month are percutaneous coronary interventions, there are four Philips digital cathlabs, of which one is the only swing cath lab in the region, enabling large case volumes and more efficient patient care.

Post Graduate Programmes: SJIC is the only government centre in the state of Karnataka to run post doctoral course in cardiology and cardio-thoracic surgery. There are presently 3 seats for Doctorate in Medicine (DM) Cardiology and Maestro Chirugirae (MCh) Cardio-thoracic surgery every year. These three-year courses are akin to the fellowship courses in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery in other countries, and are entered to after a three year residency (MD/DNB) in either Medicine or Surgery, and are thus considered "Post Doctoral" courses or fellowships. These fellowships are much in demand partly in view of the fact that they are the only government sponsored courses in the state an also due to the high patient volume at SJIC which results in a higher degree of interventional experience after having completed the course, and, as such, are determined after a intensely contested all - India level examination for 1 to 2 of the available 3 seats in either cardiology or CT Surgery, the remaining seats being reserved for state candidates

Director: The present director is Professor C N Manjunath, a well known academician and interventional cardiologist

Faculty: Cardiology: Dr. D N Manjunath Dr. B Ramesh Dr. Bingi Ramamurthy Dr. BC Srinivas Dr. Ravindranath Reddy Dr. L Sridhar Dr. Vijayalakshmi Balakundri