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Surgeons
perform live angioplasty for top London audience
Consultant cardiologists Dr Steve Holberg and Dr
Mark Signy about ‘to go live’ and perform an angioplasty which was broadcast
from Brighton to an audience of consultants and specialist registrars in London.
C ARDIOLOGISTS at the
Sussex Cardiac Centre won high praise when they demonstrated their angioplasty
skills to a London audience.
Morning sessions in the
Brighton catheter laboratories were beamed live to the Hilton Park Lane hotel to
an audience of consultant colleagues and specialist registrars at the London
Intervention 2003 meeting.
Dr Steve Holmberg and Dr Mark
Signy from Worthing tackled a difficult blocked graft.
Dr Adam de Belder and Dr David
Hildick-Smith were seen rotablating and inserting a drug eluting stent.
During the live transmission,
the consultants had to deal with questions from the London audience. "It
was quite a challenge taking questions at the same time as carrying out the
procedure," David said.
Cath lab sister Sue Yelf, who
went up to London later with some of her colleagues, said: "The day went
very well. We received a great deal of high praise from all of those
attending."
The success of the Sussex
Cardiac Centre established in 1999 is reflected in the proposal to add another
operating theatre and an additional cath lab in due course.
The performance of the two is
a praiseworthy part of the success story. When they opened some 50 interventions
were planned and 87 were actually carried out. In May this year they dealt with
392 cases.
Steve Holmberg told his audience the labs are
currently carrying out between 1,300 and 1,400 interventions a year. This
compares with about 1,500 a year in some London hospitals operating with four or
five labs!
Cardiac staff in the centre’s
seminar room were also able to watch the demonstration of a procedure being
carried out in one of the catheter laboratories.
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The Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton