A Domestic Mobile Surgery Case November 8, 2009
Posted by Arnon Krongrad, MD in Uncategorized.trackback
In October, 2009 Mobile Surgery International™ (MSI) performed a domestic mobile surgery case involving a patient from South Carolina, a surgical team from Florida, and an operating room in Kansas. The case represents the first domestic application of the mobile surgery concept that MSI had first proved in a foreign location.
The patient had had a complicated open abdominal operation and needed laparoscopic removal of his prostate. To do this well required an experienced team; there was none in his region. Outside his region, the choices were outside his economic abilities. MSI developed new excess operating room capacity in Kansas, forming a domestic Center of Excellence with Global Convenience™ to which it sent members of its Mobile Surgical PPO™ and the patient. The patient had uneventful surgery at a location he could reach more easily than a foreign country and at a price he could afford. As with foreign cases, domestic mobile surgery overcame barriers to treatment choice and quality.
Click here to listen to a post-operative radio discussion of the case.
Click here to read a newspaper article related to the case.
Click here to see a photo diary of the case.
