Hi Dr Gopi, I need your kind help clearing one doubt which is Is there any chance of brain dead during open heart surgery? we are totally distraught because of our son(18 years old student) dead recently.Let me narrate what has happened.we got our son medical check-up done 2 years ago.At that time doctor said he is having extra muscle in his heart.it has to be removed from heart for his wellness of future.But he was not having any complaints because of this extra muscle in heart.However in order to make sure whether it is very danger or not.we took him in to sathya sai hospital there doctors said yes he has. but not so urgent.you can be done lately.if you want to do immediately means you can go to private hospital& get it done.So we went for private hospital for doing heart surgery.They caused brain death to our son while doing heart surgery.we are not satisfied with their answers. because each doctor saying different reason for his brain death.So please help me understand what could have happened? what could be cause of brain death? we feel the doctor who has done operation has commited mistakes.Please help us.
Hi, I would like to give my condolence about your loss. Unfortunately, brain death may be a complication of open cardiac surgery.  The mechanism of death may be different depending on the type of cardiac intervention and cardiac anesthesia (substances that are used to stop the heart in order to perform cardiac surgery).  In most of the cases, the brain death is related to extra-corporal circulation and cerebral ischemia from inadequate cerebral perfusion.  This is why It's important to monitor the brain activity during all the time and to protect brain use hypothermia. However, in order to answer your query more precisely, I would like to have more information about your intervention. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Take care Chat Doctor. 