Megha Khanna, 75, was taken to hospital with a shattered shoulder on January 23. Doctors found multiple blockages in the arteries, making her unfit for immediate shoulder surgery as there could be a high risk of heart complications during the surgery. The medical team at Surana Sethia Hospital in Chembur then decided that the only viable option was to perform both surgeries at the same time. On January 27, the cardiac surgeon first conducted a beating-heart coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. This option reduces blood loss while providing the heart with the grafts that it requires to enhance its pumping ability. The orthopedic team took over immediately to reconstruct Khanna’s broken shoulder, setting it into the proper position and making it mobile. The operations lasted around 10 hours, all under the same anaesthesia. Khanna was happy that she was mobile on the second day after surgery. She is now recovering in a Mumbai hospital and is in a stable but critical condition.
