Medicine
Sentara Video Center Now Online
Sentara’s online video center enables you to view a wide selection of
ExploreHealth with Sentara TV shows, webcasts, patient stories and physician interviews from the comfort of your home, at your convenience. The video library can make learning about health-related topics and medical breakthroughs easy. You can watch entire shows or just click on the one- to two-minute segments of most interest to you. Check out the
vascular podcast from the
Sentara Video Center.
SPY® Imaging System Introduced Sentara Heart Hospital and Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital have introduced a new technology to aid in bypass surgery — SPY® Intra-operative Imaging System. The technology is used before and after coronary bypass surgery in order to provide immediate confirmation of a successful surgery. The system has been used at Sentara Heart Hospital® since January of this year with excellent results.
Read the news release.
MammoSite® Shortens Breast Radiation A new MammoSite® technique available at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and Sentara CarePlex Hospital places a small balloon catheter inside a lumpectomy cavity to deliver high-dose radiation directly to the area where cancer is most likely to reoccur. This form of targeted radiation delivered from inside the body – also called brachytherapy – helps minimize side effects and damage to surrounding organs. Learn more about
Mammosite® by looking at its Web site.HeartMate II Approved by FDA as Bridge-to-Transplant Sentara Heart Hospital has been among 44 sites in the country conducting a trial with the Thoratec® HeartMate II ® Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) which has just been approved by the Federal Drug Administration as a bridge-to-transplantation. This is a significant development for the product and Sentara’s program, which is also studying the HeartMate II in another trial as possible Destination Therapy. This option offers very sick heart patients the opportunity for longer-term survival and higher quality of life as they await a heart transplant.
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| Surgeons perform the areas's first procedure to remove a pituitary tumor through the nasal passages. |
May 2008 Live Surgery Webcast a Success
Surgeons at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital were the first in the area to perform an innovative procedure that removes a pituitary tumor through a patient’s nasal passages. This surgery was the focus of a May 8th
ExploreHealth with Sentara Live Surgery Webcast where Dr. Joseph Koen served as moderator while Drs. Joseph Han, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon, and Ran Vijai Singh, a neurosurgeon, performed this advanced surgical technique on a patient with a pituitary tumor. Read a
press release about the procedure or join more than 1,000 viewers who have visited the operating room via the
archived edition of this transnasal endoscopic webcast.
Dr. Burke Named to HealthLeaders Board Gene H. Burke, MD, vice president and executive medical director of clinical effectiveness for Sentara, has been invited to serve on the Quality Advisory Board for HealthLeaders Media, a division of HCPro Inc. Dr. Burke is one of 10 leaders nationwide with expertise in hospital quality and patient safety who will serve a two-year term. His role will involve advising HealthLeaders editorial staff on the most important trends and issues facing the health care industry.