| Health Travel to India is a concept that is fast | | | | should ask doctor if they are safe to take before |
| catching the fancy of the people all over the world. | | | | the procedure. For instance, patient may be asked to |
| Nowadays, more and more people prefer India as a | | | | stop taking aspirin and other drugs that interfere with |
| travel destination to fulfill all their medical needs. | | | | blood clotting several days before. |
| People come to India from Europe and America for | | | | On the day of the procedure, patient should wear |
| treatments that are expensive in their countries while | | | | comfortable clothes that are easy to remove, as |
| they found it reasonable in India. The vast difference | | | | patient will have to change into a surgical gown. The |
| in the cost of treatment between foreign countries | | | | procedure generally takes from 45 minutes to 1 hour. |
| and India has given rise to Health Travel to India. | | | | In most cases, patient will be asked to lie on a table |
| The health care costs are very expensive and | | | | on top of a soft cushion, through which the shock |
| sometimes out of reach of the common masses in | | | | waves are directed from the lithotripsy machine, |
| European and American countries. So they come on | | | | called the lithotripter. Older machines require that |
| Health Travel to India where the doctors, facilities, | | | | patient immerse patient in a specially designed tub |
| infrastructure and technology are as good as abroad. | | | | filled with water, and although less commonly used, |
| India is dotted with some of the best hospitals and | | | | these machines are still available today and are |
| best specialist doctors in the world. People generally | | | | effective. Typically, patient will receive some form of |
| come for their treatment and stay back to travel | | | | anesthesia, and depending on the level of sedation, |
| and see India. Such tourism gives boost to medical as | | | | patient may feel a tapping sensation when the |
| well as tourism industry of India. | | | | procedure begins. Since lithotripsy can cause mild |
| What is Lithotripsy? | | | | discomfort, a mild sedative or painkiller is given |
| Lithotripsy is the use of high-energy shock waves to | | | | beforehand. Patient should tell doctor if patient is |
| fragment and disintegrate kidney stones. The shock | | | | pregnant, because lithotripsy must not be performed |
| wave, created by using a high-voltage spark or an | | | | during pregnancy. |
| electromagnetic impulse outside of the body, is | | | | While most kidney stones are treated with this type |
| focused on the stone. The shock wave shatters the | | | | of lithotripsy, not all stones can be treated this way. |
| stone, allowing the fragments to pass through the | | | | Sometimes a laser is used to pulverize the stone, but |
| urinary system. Since the shock wave is generated | | | | when a laser is used, the doctor must use an |
| outside the body, the procedure is termed | | | | endoscope, which is a tube introduced into the body, |
| extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL). The | | | | via the urinary tract, to get close to the stone. The |
| name is derived from the roots of two Greek words, | | | | doctor may also access the stone from back into |
| litho, meaning stone, and trip, meaning to break. | | | | kidney, through a procedure called percutaneous |
| Pre-operative care for Lithotripsy: | | | | lithotripsy. Laser lithotripsy is usually used when the |
| Prior to the lithotripsy procedure, a complete physical | | | | stone does not respond to extracorporeal shock |
| examination is performed, followed by tests to | | | | wave treatment or when it is in a place that is |
| determine the number, location, and size of the stone | | | | difficult to access. It requires a hospital stay and |
| or stones. A test called an intravenous pyelogram | | | | carries a slightly greater risk of complications than |
| (IVP) is used to locate the stones, which involves | | | | extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. |
| injecting a dye into a vein in the arm. This dye, which | | | | How successful is lithotripsy? |
| shows up on X ray, travels through the bloodstream | | | | In those patients who are thought to be good |
| and is excreted by the kidneys. The dye then flows | | | | candidates for this treatment, about 70 to 90 |
| down the ureters and into the bladder. The dye | | | | percent are found to be free of stones within three |
| surrounds the stones. In this manner, x rays are used | | | | months of treatment. The highest success rates |
| to evaluate the stones and the anatomy of the | | | | seem to be in those patients with mobile stones that |
| urinary system. Blood tests are performed to | | | | are located in the upper portions of the urinary tract |
| determine if any potential bleeding problems exist. For | | | | (kidney and upper ureter). After treatment, some |
| women of childbearing age, a pregnancy test is done | | | | patients may still have stone fragments that are too |
| to make sure they are not pregnant. Older persons | | | | large to be passed. These can be treated again if |
| have an EKG test to make sure that no potential | | | | symptoms persist. |
| heart problems exist. Some individuals may have a | | | | Lithotripsy in India: |
| stent placed prior to the lithotripsy procedure. A | | | | Medical tourism can be generally defined as provision |
| stent is a plastic tube placed in the ureter that allows | | | | of 'cost effective' personal health care in association |
| the passage of gravel and urine after the ESWL | | | | with the tourism industry for your needing surgical |
| procedure is completed. | | | | healthcare and other forms of dedicated treatment. |
| The process of lithotripsy generally takes about one | | | | This process is being facilitated by the corporate |
| hour. During that time, up to 8,000 individual shock | | | | sector concerned in health care as well as the |
| waves are administered. Depending on a person's pain | | | | tourism industry - both personal and public. |
| tolerance; there may be some discomfort during the | | | | Medical or Health treatment package tourism has |
| treatment. Analgesics may be administered to relieve | | | | become a recurrent form of vacationing, and covers |
| this pain. | | | | a broad range of medical services. It mingles free |
| Procedure of Lithotripsy: | | | | time, amusing and recreation together with wellness |
| Lithotripsy is a technique used to break up stones | | | | and healthcare packages. |
| that form in the kidney, bladder, ureters, or | | | | The thought of the health holiday is to offer you and |
| gallbladder. There are several ways of doing this, | | | | chance to get away from your daily habitual and |
| although the most common is extracorporeal shock | | | | come into a dissimilar calming neighboring. Here you |
| wave lithotripsy. The shock waves are focused on | | | | can take pleasure in being close to the beach and the |
| the kidney stone and break the stone into tiny | | | | mountains. At the same time you are able to accept |
| pieces, which are passed out of the body naturally | | | | a compass reading that will assist you advance your |
| during urination. Throughout the procedure, the | | | | life in terms of your health and general well being. It |
| doctor can view what is happening to the stones | | | | is like reconstruction and cleans up process on all |
| through x-ray or ultrasound monitoring. This | | | | levels - physical, psychological and expressive. Many |
| procedure prevents patient from having to undergo | | | | people from the urbanized world come to India for |
| surgery to have the stones removed, which reduces | | | | the upgrading promised by yoga and Ayurvedic |
| discomfort, complications, hospital stay, costs, and | | | | massage, but few consider it a target for hip |
| recovery time. | | | | substitute or brain surgical procedure. However, a |
| Patient will usually be asked not to drink or eat | | | | nice blend of top-class medical expertise at attractive |
| anything for 6 hours prior to the procedure, or after | | | | prices is helping a rising number of Indian corporate |
| midnight of the previous night, if the procedure is in | | | | hospitals attract foreign your, including from |
| the morning. If patient take regular medicines, patient | | | | developed nations such as the UK and the US. |