Penn Outpatient Surgical Pavilion
Each year, Penn Surgery attracts an increasing
number of patients from Philadelphia, the mid-Atlantic
region and across the nation – with growth
of nearly 10 percent in the last year alone – by
providing the best and most innovative surgical
care in the region, for cases ranging from the
simplest to the most complex and challenging.
The Outpatient Surgical Pavilion at the Perelman
Center for Advanced Medicine will include:
- 8 Operating Rooms – 600
square feet each (30% larger than required
by code) which provides maximum flexibility
to accommodate ever-changing technologies
- 32 Pre-operative and
Recovery beds
- OR Supply and Processing
Support
Since Penn Surgery's earliest days – which
began with the nation's first professor
of surgery at the first School of Medicine, as
well as the first surgical amphitheatre in the
United States – Penn's surgeons have
continued the department's longstanding
traditions of excellence and innovation:
- Cardiothoracic surgeons at the Hospital of
the University of Pennsylvania recently became
the first in the region to implant the HeartMate
II, a next-generation heart pump, to treat
late-stage heart failure.
- Penn otorhinolaryngologists are pioneering
the use of robotic surgery for removal of head
and neck tumors, greatly reducing the surgical
trauma and helping to preserve speech, swallowing
and other functions.
- The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
is one of only seven centers in the nation
to train vascular and cardiothoracic surgeons
in the use of a novel, minimally invasive stent
deployment device to treat life-threatening
descending thoracic aortic aneurysm, which
traditionally requires complex, grueling surgery.
As surgical techniques and technology evolve,
Penn Cardiac Care is able to perform a growing
number of surgeries on an outpatient basis.
The Outpatient Surgical Pavilion at the Perelman
Center will allow us to do so more efficiently,
with streamlined patient service.
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