 Hello everyone, I am Dr. Murali Krishna, Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Manipal Hospital Role Airport Road, Bangalore. Today I want to share with you my thoughts on cardiac surgery in general and minimally invasive cardiac surgery in particular. Here we do all the cover the complete spectrum of cardiac surgery, whether it's be it adult, pediatric and pediatric whether it's neonate, infant or little children. So cardiac surgery as you know encompasses the whole spectrum of diseases affecting the heart whether be it bypass surgery or be it surgery affecting the valves or surgery for heart failure. Here we do the entire spectrum of adult cardiac surgery including surgery for heart failure wherein advanced therapeutic interventions are required as in extracorporeal membrane support, oxygenation also called as ECMO support or ventricular SS devices including heart and heart lung transplant. Today I want to stress about minimally invasive cardiac surgery which is a new branch of cardiac surgery which has come in general and being adopted all over the world. Minimal invasive cardiac surgery as the name implies, implies doing cardiac surgery in a less invasive way where the incisions are not particularly seen by anyone. You can also call it as sort of cosmetic incision where no bone is cut and procedure everything takes place exactly like cardiac surgery but since the incision is minimal or you see it is in hidden areas of the body postoperative recovery is quite fast, blood supply is blood flow, blood wastage is minimal and patients recover very fast. So, this minimal invasive cardiac surgery can be applied to majority of the cardiac surgery is what we do including in children. In children we usually do for children weighing less than more than 7 kgs and upper weight limit is not a consideration and if any proper indications are there like septal defects, atrial septal defects, ventricular septal defects, partial av canals or at that spectrum of congenital disorders where the children can tolerate procedure more than 7 kgs. So, we are doing it here and coming to adults also bypass surgery where proper indications are there or vial surgery where it is done in a less invasive route through thoracotamine so that also can be done. So, the minimal invasive cardiac surgery what are the major advantages? Major advantages as I said earlier it comprises minimal the smaller skin incision in a sensible areas of the body and post-op recovery is quite fast. Other thing what I want to tell is how is it beneficial compared to regular cardiac surgery? Regular cardiac surgery what we do is the main breast bone is cut and the recovery usually takes a longer period in a sense that the for the bone to fuse it will take around 2 to 3 months and since minimal invasive cardiac surgery there are no cutting of the bone involved and we go through the intercostal space or what is called a thoracotamine route so the post-op recovery is quite fast. So, I would like to stress again that minimal invasive cardiac surgery is a new branch of cardiac surgery which is being adopted all over the world because it is being sort of more prevalent as compared to regular cardiac surgery where patients want a faster recovery and less pain and earlier return to normal activity as soon as possible. So, if you can want to know more details about it we have a website and the other radius social media you can easily access the information and please consider it when choosing a procedure.