Mobile Prostatectomy Service in Trinidad February 6, 2011

Last month, Mobile Surgery International™ (MSI) sent a highly experienced surgical team and its equipment to Trinidad to deliver laparoscopic prostatectomy to 3 men with prostate cancer. In so doing, MSI filled a gap in treatment options and allowed 3 men to conveniently have their treatment choice, done well — at home.

There were no complications, no transfusions, and no conversions to open surgery. None of the patients took so much as a single Tylenol for post-operative pain.  All 3 patients were ready for hospital discharge the following morning.

In order to deliver remote, mobile, major surgical service, MSI worked with a local host hospital to which it brought the patients, surgeons, and equipment. Sharing equipment reduces redundancy and eliminates capital risk for the hospitals to which MSI sends its surgical teams, which lowers cost; this is one of the ways by which MSI generates savings for patients and payers.

Along with sharing equipment, sending a highly experienced team eliminates learning curve, allows bringing service to market instantly, and reduces the chance of complications and cost outliers. MSI believes the surgical quality is principally determined by surgeons and only works with highly experienced, senior surgical specialists.

By relying upon surgical subject expertise applied inside operating rooms and upon a willingness to serve, MSI turns potential capacity into actual capacity but with no risk to the host institution. Everybody benefits.

MSI’s working model optimizes choice, quality, and cost domestically and abroad. In the past, MSI has mobilized patients to its Centers of Excellence with Global Convenience™ in Florida. It has also mobilized patients, surgeons, and surgical equipment to its Centers of Excellence with Global Convenience™ in Florida and in Kansas. MSI mobilizes patients, surgeons, and pairs of patients and surgeons to overcome economic, geographic, and cultural barriers to treatment choice and treatment quality.

Last month’s mobile prostatectomy trip to Trinidad reflects recognition by patients, doctors, and third-party payers in geographies remote from MSI’s Florida headquarters that quality can be affordably imported on an ad hoc basis. And that MSI will handle all the logistical and clinical details to make sure things go well.

Below are some photographs from the trip to Trinidad:

  MSI’s equipment is packed and ready.

 Great staff and convenient location.

 Anesthesia gets to work.

 She’s part of the surgical team.

  All is well and it’s time to go home.