Cardiac care has become a speciality in India with names such as the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, All India Institute of Medical Science and Apollo Hospital becoming names to reckon with. They combine the latest innovations in medical electronics with unmatched expertise in leading cardiologists and cardio-tho-racic surgeons. These centres have the distinction of providing comprehensive cardiac care spanning from basic facilities in preventive cardiology to the most sophisticated curative technology. The technology is contemporary and world class and the volumes handled match global benchmarks. They also specialise in offering surgery to high risk patients with the introduction of innovative techniques of minimally invasive and robotic surgery.

Renowned Indian hospitals like Apollo and Escorts Heart Institute today, are equipped to handle all phases of heart diseases from the elementary to latest clinical procedures like interventional cardiac catherisation and surgical cardiac transplants. Their success rate at an average of 98.50 per cent is at per with leading cardiac centres around the world.

Leading heart centres like The Escorts Heart Institute have Cardiac Care Units with sophisticated equipment and investigative facilities like Echocardiography with coloured Doppler, Nuclear Scanning and Coronary Angiographies.