Dr. Harinder Singh Bedi is the Director of the Cardiovascular, Endovascular & Thoracic Sciences at Ivy Hospital, Mohali, Punjab. Dr. Bedi is known for his world’s first surgery of multi-vessel beating heart recorded in the Limca Book of World Records 2000 and also he has performed the world’s first minimally invasive heart surgery using a cath lab in the operation theater (Limca book of records 2008). In the VAICON 2020, Dr.
Bedi was the Vice President and has delivered many informative lectures. Pulmonary embolism is a blockage of the pulmonary arteries of the lungs caused due to the clots in the deep veins and other veins of the body that travel to the lungs. Such blood clots are often caused due to prolonged immobility of body parts during travel or prolonged bed rest. In this exclusive commentary Dr. Bedi has shared his views about what is pulmonary embolism, Deep vein thrombosis…