Santiago Dominican Republic ILAC Trip, November 2022

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November 2022 Santiago Dominican Republic ILAC Trip

This was our first trip back to ILAC since 2019.  An entire team was recruited and all three operating rooms were used.  One for pediatric hernia surgery, another for the more complicated adult patients requiring a general anesthetic and the third for hernia patients requiring only local anesthesia with intravenous sedation.  Dr. Michael Sarr, Dr. David Chen, Dr. Robert Cusick, Dr. Alex Schroeder and Dr. Conrad Ballecer were all surgeons with several spending two days of the five.  Dr. Chen also gave a hernia lecture one evening to the Northern Dominican Republic chapter of the American Board of Surgery.

Eighty one operations were performed and many large inguinoscrotal hernias were repaired.  One patient experienced an intraoperative bradycardia during that was rectified pharmacologically.  No other complications were encountered.

 

The pre-operative staff with patient

An expert selfie of the entire team taken by Dr. Chen in the left foreground