Have you always dreamed of attending a surgical operation? Connect this Monday morning around 11 am, on the Facebook page of the Hospital de Saintes. You will be able attend a prolapse surgery, in other words the operation of an organ descent in an anonymous patient who gave her consent. This is a first for our region, and only the second broadcast of this type in France. In 2020, the Center Hospitalier de Valenciennes in the north led the way with a carpal tunnel operation.
The same man is at the origin of this event this Monday morning in Saintes, it is Christopher Albano, the new director in charge of communication of the Hospital Center of Saintonge, arrived a few months ago. “We chose a “simple” gesture, not bloody so easily broadcast and watchable” he explains. Cameras will film the intervention live, an operation that lasts an hour in total.
“We are not going to film the whole thing, we will take it in the middle“says Christopher Albano, Spectators will not see the face of the sleeping patient at any time. “We will see the inside of her body: the uterus, the fallopian tubes and we will see the surgeon insert a net inside the patient’s body and fix it with stitches“. The surgeon will set up the net to contain the organs that the muscles can no longer maintain, and that could come out of the body. This phenomenon often occurs following complicated deliveries or with age and menopause. This operation has the advantage of being “almost risk-free, there is no zero risk in medicine or surgery” says Christopher Albano. “It’s U
It can create vocations and strengthen the attractiveness of the hospital by showing our know-how, and our tools to recruit doctors and surgeons – Christopher Albano, Center Hospitalier de Saintonge
This type of broadcast can interest many people. “In Valenciennes we had a lot of requests from people who wanted to visit the operating room, see how an operation is going“says Christopher Albano. The interns, students in surgery or who intend to become one may be interested “especially in this period of Covid, where we cannot enter hospitals“. But the dissemination of the operation may also be of interest to former patients who have already been operated on. “It is good to do a work of pedagogyrepeats Christopher Albano.Patients sometimes go to hospital too late, especially in rural areas. The hospital should not be anxiety-provoking. If this kind of communication can encourage people to seek treatment, we are in a public health operation.“.
The Saintonge Hospital Center could renew this kind of distribution. “Why not once a quarter” launches Christopher Albano, The hospital will be equipped in the coming months with a surgical robot, it could be the subject of an upcoming live broadcast.