Dr Murali Vettath has immensely contributed to the field of beating heart surgery and to cardiac surgery at large.   He has been one of the pioneers of off pump surgery, having performed the first beating heart surgery in Bangladesh.  He has had extensive training in coronary artery surgery from Australia, Holland and Paris.

Dr Vettath has great treasure of achievement to his credit.   He has invented a proximal anastomotic device used widely in beating heart surgery.  He has also devised techniques of long mammary patch anastomosis for diffusely diseased coronary artery.  He has also fabricated many instruments and devices used in beating heart surgery. He has delivered many lectures, presented research papers and published articles in national and international forums.   Dr Vettath has bagged several awards and honors in recognition of his excellence. 

He has been a front runner in the quest to perform 100% off pump surgeries for coronary artery bypass grafting and has been instrumental in starting OPCAB (off pump by surgery) in many cardiac centers.

The Department of Cardiac Surgery at MIMS started functioning since July 2002.  We perform  around 500 Open Heart Surgeries per year including Adult & Pediatric cardiac surgery.

Hundred percent of all Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts are being performed on Beating Heart OPCAB since last three year (OFF PUMP CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS). This procedure has greatly reduced the postoperative morbidity and helped in fast tracking our patients after cardiac surgery. This has been very helpful in patients with co-morbidities and with low ejection fraction (sick hearts).

TOTAL ARTERIAL CORONARY REVASCULARIZATION (TACR) using both mammary arteries and radial artery is also being performed here.

We are one of the few centers in India who perform REDO CABG'S & EMERGENCY CORONARY REVASCULARISATION PROCEDURES FOR ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME & POST INFARCTION ANGINA on Beating Heart, without using Heart Lung Machine.