State of the Art Technology
Newest Technologies

Baptist Health's Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Program employs the latest medical technologies to perform procedures, including:

Harmonic Scalpel, Lasers, Argon Beam Coagulator, Electrocautery and the da Vinci™ S-Robot - Devices used during surgery to reduce blood loss.

Intra-Operative/Post-Operative Blood Salvage (Cell Saver) and Hemodilution - Salvages, filters and recirculates the patient's own blood.

Pharmaceuticals - Synthetic Erythropoietin (EPO) stimulates bone marrow to produce red blood cells. Recombinant products build white blood cells and hemostatic agents promote coagulation.

Volume Expanders - Intravenous fluids that enhance the circulation of a patient's own blood.

Transcutaneous Oxygen Monitoring and Pulse Oximetry - Non-invasively tracks oxygen levels during surgery and hyperbaric oxygen treatment. Baptist Downtown and Baptist Beaches both offer wound care and hyperbaric medicine in Northeast Florida.

Blood Conservation Techniques - Micro-sampling techniques dramatically reduce the amount of blood taken from the patient for analytic testing.

Minimally Invasive Surgery - Advancement in technology now allows procedures to be performed through a natural opening. Minimally invasive procedures promote less blood loss, less pain, shorter hospital stay and cosmetic benefits for the patient.

Gamma Knife™ - The region's only Gamma Knife services provides a non-invasive alternative to patients with malignant and benign brain tumors, vascular malformations and trigeminal neuralgia.

Novalis Tx™ - This therapy involves quickly delivering precisely focused, high-energy radiation to a localized area to destroy tumors throughout the body that often cannot be treated using traditional surgery, including malignant and benign tumors; brain metastases; arteriovenous malformations and trigeminal neuralgia.

Interventional Radiology - State-of-the-art Minimally Invasive Interventional Radiology Lab for procedures such as:

• Fibroid embolization
• Liver ablation
• Aortic endograph
• Minimally invasive cancer treatment
• Vertebroplasty

For information, e-mail Program Manager or call him at 904.202.3460 or toll-free at 1.866.839.9161.