(Serang, March 18th 2022) Medicine Faculty of UNTIRTA and International Office of Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (IO-UNTIRTA) held an online guest lecture in collaboration with Mahkota Health Center Malaysia. The collaboration was part in Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa and Mahkota Health Center Malaysia. The Online Guest Lecture invited dr. Kenny Cheng Keng Peng from Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Mahkota Medical Centre, Malaysia and dr. Ade Ikhwan, Sp.An., M.Kes. from Faculty member of Medicine Faculty of UNTIRTA with both of them as the speakers. The online event moderated by dr. Louisa Ivana Utami from Faculty member of Medicine Faculty of UNTIRTA. The event was held online via zoom. The participants were from University college students across Java islands, estimated 104 participant online in the zoom event. This program purpose is to enrich the knowledge in the Medicine world and its research.
dr. Kenny present regarding the topic of thoracic surgical disease, there are many types of heart and lung disease in which dr. Kenny has a counter on his career as a doctor. One of the most common diseases that dr. Kenny’s encounter is lung cancer which is one of the most common cancer that occurs on a patient and it’s asymptomatic. Signs such as coughing blood, shortness in breathing, etc usually occur when cancer is already in the later stage. Surgery on heart disease is also manageable by cutting open on the center of the chest, and cutting the thorax bone to expose the heart so surgery becomes possible. Throughout the years, thoracic surgery has developed and there are many ways that can be executed to become as more effective as possible with less cost and less risk.
dr. Ade brought the topic of hemodynamic monitoring, the function of hemodynamic monitoring itself is to directly measure the patient blood pressure. This system measures the blood system from inside the veins. dr. Ade also gives advice or information to young doctors is that don’t just think of the measurement from the hemodynamic monitoring as numbers, but we also need to identify the problem or abnormal activity that occurs.