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Expert surgical care and minimally-invasive procedures

As part of Tift Regional Medical Center’s recent $35 million expansion, the Surgery Center is one of the most advanced and progressive surgical facilities in Georgia. Located at TRMC on 20th Street, the new Surgery Center allows for greater operating room capacity, more state-of-the-art technology, enhanced patient privacy and improved access. With precision instruments and high-tech equipment normally reserved for academic centers, the Surgery Center includes 10 new operating room suites, PACU and OR Sterile Central Supply. The new patient registration and waiting area is designed with patient convenience and comfort in mind.

Quality surgical care with an added human touch

The TRMC Surgery Center is the site of a wide range of advanced and innovative surgical procedures. The highly-trained surgeons and anesthesiologists on the TRMC medical staff are assisted by a skilled team of nurses, CRNAs, physician’s assistants, Certified Surgical Technicians and more. The operating room staff also includes specialty nurses responsible for particular areas of expertise. Surgical specialties offered at TRMC include:

• General Surgery
• Gynecology
• Laparoscopic & Laser Surgery
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedic
• Otolaryngology
• Urology
• Vascular
• Pain Management

Minimally-invasive surgery: small incisions, quick recovery times

The Surgery Center offers a host of advanced, minimally-invasive procedures that utilize a telescope-like instrument which is inserted in a small incision called a laparoscope, endoscope or arthroscope. The scope is connected to a tiny video camera, which projects a view of the operative site on video monitors in the operating room. The surgeon observes the video monitors to guide precision surgical instruments through another small incision to perform the operation.

Patients who undergo a minimally-invasive procedure may realize such benefits as reduced postoperative pain, shorter hospital stays, less scarring and a quicker return to daily activities. Minimally-invasive surgeries at Tift Regional Medical Center include:

• Endovascular procedures: the treatment of vascular disease from within the blood vessel (such as hardened arteries in the leg or other area).
• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy: minimally-invasive gallbladder removal.
• Sentinal node and Mammotone inserts: minimally-invasive breast biopsies.
• Vagal nerve stimulator insertion: for controlling epileptic seizures.
• Orthopedic arthroscopic procedures: for the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders of the knee, ankle, shoulder, elbow and carpal tunnel
• Diagnostic and therapeutic laparoscopy.
• Supracervical hysterectomies.
• Laparoscopic Uternine Nerve Abalation (LUNA): for treating chronic pelvic pain.
• Thermal ablation: for dysfunctional uterine bleeding (as an alternative to a hysterectomy).
• Brachytherapy: for prostate and cervical cancer.
• Various ophthalmologic and endoscopic sinus surgeries.