Hybrid healing at Lawrence General Hospital Whether surgery has already begun or it’s still in the preliminary stages, no surgeon wants to move their patient from room to room. In January 2017, Lawrence General Hospital (LGH), located in Lawrence, MA, alleviated that issue by opening the region’s first hybrid operating room as part of its new, state-of-the- art surgical center. Allowing for a wider range of surgeries, a hybrid operating room can accommodate minimally invasive or open vascular surgeries in the same space. Before, if a surgery began as minimally invasive but it was later deemed that open vascular was necessary, surgeons would have to relocate themselves and the patient to another room. Now a patient’s needs can be accommodated without moving. Altro Whiterock

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