Operating Rooms and SameDay Surgery

In the Operating Rooms at Lake Region Hospital, change is always occurring. New surgical procedures unthought of just a few years ago are now routine. To keep pace with the increasing number and complexity of surgical cases, LRH added two new OR suites this past year to the four suites built just over 10 years ago, creating one of the region's most sophisticated operating room facilities.

As surgeons elect to perform new procedures, the staff immerse themselves in mastering new equipment and techniques to successfully perform these leading edge surgical solutions.

The members of the operating room, pre- and post-surgical teams work with the Anesthesia Department and Surgical/Pediatrics/Outpatient nursing unit that helps provide education and nursing care. Members of all three teams have years of specific training to work with surgical patients, who range in age from infants to the elderly.

The goal of the LRH surgeons and staff is to provide area patients with comprehensive, high tech, compassionate care in their own community.

Scope of surgical procedures include:

• General
• Thoracic and vascular
• Orthopedic
• Ear, nose and throat
• Oral surgery
• Obstetrics and gynecological including laprascopic supra cervical hysterectomy, endometrial ablation
• Urological
• Ophthalmological
• Podiatry

Advancing surgical procedures mean most patients come to the hospital in the morning, surgery is done and after an adequate recovery time, they go home. All in the same day.

To meet this growing trend, Lake Region Hospital has opened a new SameDay Surgery Center designed to get patients into and out of surgery comfortably and efficiently.

When they arrive, patients are greeted by a receptionist and given access to a personal locker to store their clothes and personal items. Children have toys and games to occupy them and a teddy bear to keep them company. CD players with headphones are available.

Friends or family members accompanying the patient can be given a beeper so that they feel free to leave the same day surgical waiting room and know they can be contacted immediately.

When patients are in the SameDay Surgery Center, they move seamlessly from pre-op to the operating room to post-op via mobile high-tech surgical chairs that can be adjusted by the patient.

Following the surgical procedure, the patient is attended to by a nurse, receiving support and timely care. They are carefully monitored and evaluated before going home.

SameDay Surgery procedures include:

• Knee surgery
• Cataract surgery
• Eye surgery
• Biopsies
• Hernia repair
• Hand surgery - carpal tunnel, syndrome repair
• Steroid injection
• Bladder surgery
• Foot surgery
• Dental surgery
• Tonsillectomy
• Nasal surgery
• Ear surgery
• Gynecological