Baptist Interventional Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery teams are working together to use advanced technology to improve patient care. The thoracic team at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis collaborated with the pulmonology and surgery teams to perform the hospital’s first single anesthetic event for a patient who had lung nodule resection on April 23.
“I’m excited to have worked with Dr. Mehrotra to introduce single anesthesia cases to the greater Memphis area. The success of this first case was due in large part to the collaborative effort among all of our team members,” said Dr. Jane Zhao, a thoracic surgeon with Baptist Memphis. “I appreciate that everyone was willing to go above and beyond their comfort zone and try something new.”
Traditionally, localization of a lung nodule before resection is performed at a separate event. Dr. Zhao and Dr. Anurag Mehrotra, an interventional pulmonologist with Baptist Cancer Center, worked together to localize the nodule with the help of cone beam, computed tomography-guided robotic-assisted bronchoscopy. They also used indocyanine green dye-soaked fiducial coils for lesion marking.
“The patient in this case definitely benefited from a single anesthesia event to both localize and remove lung cancer, and several more patients since then have also benefited. Change is the only constant, and I look forward to continuing to innovate in the lung cancer space here at Baptist,” said Dr. Zhao.
