Virtual OR Showcases West Texas Tonight
Category: Local... Medicine...
Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 08:24 AM [GMT-6]

A local physician will perform bypass surgery on a beating heart and the procedure will be broadcast live at 6:00 p.m. tonight on the OR Live website. Dr. Sudhir Srivastava has pioneered the technique, called Totally Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass (TECAB), using the da Vinci robotic surgical system. The minimally invasive technique avoids the use of a heart-lung machine, and recuperation from the surgery is vastly quicker and less painful than with conventional open heart operations.

The da Vinci robotic system at Alliance Hospital in Odessa is one of the jewels of the west Texas health care system, and the increasing number of physicians in our area who are using the system represent an important asset for the region. In addition to the cardio-pulmonary surgical techniques like TECAB and THORACAB (another minimally invasive procedure developed by Dr. Srivastava), the system is being used locally for operations such as prostatectomies with significantly less trauma to the patient.

If this sounds like a Chamber of Commerce commercial for our region, I suppose it is. Access to this kind of cutting edge (no pun intended) medical technology, state-of-the-art facilities to house it, and expert physicians to use it is an important step in diversifying our economy and improving the attractiveness of west Texas as a place to live and retire.

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this all sounds really cool, but unfortunately, my tiny brain cannot understand what it all means.... so i'll just call it the da vinci code.

ouch. sorry. that joke even made me cringe.

Posted by: kyle at September 26, 2006 12:11 PM

Cool! Scifi becomes reality.

So, I guess not all of that oil money went to line Dubya's pockets. ;)

Posted by: Denise at September 26, 2006 09:51 PM
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