Sacred Heart surgery featured in live, nation-wide broadcast
On an early November morning, the operating theatre at Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital played host to a distinguished audience when a television crew broadcast a direct anterior total hip arthroplasty (a minimally invasive hip replacement), via satellite from Sacred Heart’s Surgery Center.
Timothy Lovell, MD, was one of four physicians nationwide chosen for the broadcast that reached a select group of 500 surgeons assembled for a worldwide symposium in New York City. The minimally-invasive procedure allows surgeons to create a much smaller incision; patients in return enjoy a shorter hospital stay with less pain during recovery. Other procedures featured were from Nevada, Detroit and Cleveland.
The broadcast marks the second time in recent years a Sacred Heart surgery team has performed via satellite in a teaching setting for other physicians. In January, 2006 Leland Siwek, MD, and partner Brandon Reynolds, MD, gave live instruction on robotic heart surgery to 150 surgeons in Southern California.
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