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\n\n\n\nBy Scott Leggett <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
At the forefront of embracing the growing advancements in surgery is Dr. Alexandre Rasouli, a nationally recognized, board-certified spine surgeon. With his focus on the innovations and advancements of technology in surgery, he is paving the way to incorporate these elements into his practice and encouraging other surgeons to follow suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMinimally invasive deformity correction, computer-assisted surgery, and image-guided surgery have revolutionized our ability to successfully treat spinal conditions,\u201d emphasizes Dr. Rasouli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With stress on efficiency, Dr. Rasouli highlights the importance of making sure everything he does is productive, purposeful, and effective. If something does not add value, he will find a new way to perform procedures more efficiently, and that starts with working at a well-fitted Outpatient Surgery Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Rasouli has found, after working at 90210 Surgery Medical Center <\/a>(affiliated with Cedars-Sinai) for the past six years, that he has been able to complete multiple complex surgery cases with zero complications. Moreover, understanding the importance of teamwork, he surrounds himself with like-minded, experienced surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists to ensure each surgical procedure results in minimal blood loss, short operative time, and minimally invasive techniques to yield strong outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSurgeons with a particular skill set can leverage their skills to do surgeries in a setting where patients can go home the same day, regardless of the caliber or magnitude of the surgery. So at that point, we decided that the setting of the surgery suddenly becomes the innovation,\u201d notes Dr. Rasouli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To gain more traction for this outpatient surgery movement, insurance companies, government entities, and the like will also need to be on board. \u201cWe\u2019re going to need vocal surgeons,\u201d says Dr. Rasouli. \u201cThe surgeons that are vocal right now are part of the \u2018old guard.\u2019 They generally take much longer in surgery, which can lead to additional blood loss and more extended hospital stays for their patients. Those are the surgeons right now that are being looked upon for guidance on policy. In contrast, a surgeon trained in an outpatient surgery center can take approximately half the time to do the same surgery. So it\u2019s going to take some younger, more vocal surgeons to be able to get those entities to start to shift gears a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Dr. Rasouli, ten years ago, surgeries were driven by scientific studies conducted on the spine. More recently, he has seen a paradigm shift as patients are now more informed. Patients are more likely to conduct their own online research and bring the findings to their surgeon for the procedure they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf a patient wants an artificial disc, it\u2019s because they\u2019ve done the research and they believe an artificial disc is better suited for them,\u201d explains Dr. Rasouli, who is the first surgeon in the nation to use the new modular ProDisc lumbar artificial disk replacement system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA surgery is only as complex as the surgeon makes it,\u201d says Dr. Rasouli. To further clarify, complex surgery is \u201cconsidered complex merely by the fact that they involve a fusion in the back where you have to go in from multiple approaches. There are some surgeries where we have to approach the low back from multiple angles, say from the front and the back. That\u2019s considered a complex surgery. There are surgeries in the neck, for example, where you\u2019re replacing not one disc but several discs simultaneously, say three or four. That\u2019s considered a complex surgery. Any procedure on the mid-spine, what we call the thoracic spine, which carries with it the spinal cord and all those things would be considered a complex surgery,\u201d explains Dr. Rasouli. In addition to completing these complex surgeries in an outpatient setting, they can be done safely and cost-effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a well-established strategy for managing costs and removing the economic uncertainty of surgical procedures. That strategy is bundled payments for healthcare procedures. For the patient, there is one price, one payment, and no surprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Highlighting the importance of this, Dr. Rasouli says, \u201csome insurance companies have caught on to the value-add proposition. If you can get the same product for a fraction of the price because you\u2019re doing it at an outpatient setting, which is more efficient and doesn\u2019t involve an overnight stay, then it\u2019s less of a financial burden to the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this case, the insurance companies would have to pass those savings onto the system. So I think Global 1 is innovative in that it\u2019s been able to link with a particular payer to offer that and make that a reality. Since migrating more cases to an outpatient setting due to COVID, we\u2019ve seen a 20 percent increase in Global 1 bundled cases with Blue Shield. I\u2019m hopeful other insurance companies will come around.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n When looking to the future, Dr. Rasouli is adamant that if something does not prove efficient, he will not incorporate it. \u201cIf I go to wear a pair of goggles that show me exactly where I have to go with my screws, and I wouldn\u2019t need to bring in an x-ray into the room or a microscope, that\u2019s suddenly a big value-add,\u201d notes Dr. Rasouli who is currently working with a company to bring augmented reality headsets into his surgery center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn my opinion, the most promising technology in the outpatient setting is an augmented reality headset because remember, you don\u2019t want to add time to the case,\u201d says Dr. Rasouli, who stresses that every millimeter counts when guiding a spinal surgeon through operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is clear that groundbreaking advancements are being made to revolutionize surgery, and \u201caugmented reality, which shows you things that you wouldn\u2019t be able to see no matter how good you are, hold the promise of the future of surgery,\u201d affirms Dr. Rasouli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read On: Global 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Scott Leggett At the forefront of embracing the growing advancements in surgery is Dr. Alexandre Rasouli, a nationally recognized, board-certified spine surgeon. 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