Patients who need to have surgery are finding that the latest technologies are changing the way they receive care. New technologies include:
- Lasers
- Television cameras the size of a thumbnail
- Robotics
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The way patients experience surgery is also changing, thanks to developments like patient-controlled analgesia, where the patients control their own pain medication.
Before the 1980s, residents of Western Massachusetts had to travel to Boston to receive such sophisticated technology. Now our surgeons perform these state-of-the-art surgeries routinely, close to home.
These new advances mean less time in surgery, less recovery time and pain, and a faster return to normal life. Baystate Health has the physicians, staff and technology to perform some of the most advanced surgical techniques available.
General surgeons at Baystate Health have special expertise in:
- Breast surgery
- Endocrine surgery
- Stomach and small bowel surgery
- Hernia repair
- Liver, bile duct and pancreatic surgery
- Laparoscopic and open adrenalectomy
- Parathyroidectomy (standard and minimally invasive)
- Surgical oncology
- Thyroidectomy
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Bariatric surgery
