Vascular Procedure Center

What does a vascular center do?

Over the years vascular surgery has gone from being inpatient type procedures, where patients are in the hospital for several days to more and more minimally invasive outpatient type procedures. The Vascular Procedure Center is a facility we began in 2012 to fill a need for patient care that we felt could probably be met in a much more efficient manner.

We not only do the minimally invasive new cutting-edge procedures, but we also do the old fashion surgery which is often times needed. Sometimes it requires a hybrid approach which requires surgery and some of these minimally invasive procedures.

What types of procedures are done at a vascular procedure center?

We do lower extremity arterial procedures here. This is for limb salvage or for people who have blockages in their arteries and in their legs. In addition, we do venous work. That includes highly complex venous reconstructions via balloon catheters and stents. This basically takes care of all of the same patients needs that we took care of in the hospital in a much more convenient, easy outpatient type facility.

“So what’s really neat about what we’re doing here at the Vascular Procedure Center is we’re advancing techniques and accessing arteries from all around the body. One of the most important advances that we’ve made is being able to cross and treat these lesions with pedal access, or access in the small blood vessels in the foot to get to the blood vessels that actually have blockages. That access allows us to get through lesions (or through disease) that others haven’t been able to get through before. And in patients that would have probably needed a bypass instead.” – Dr. Bryan Fisher.

What does the vascular team do?

We are fully staffed with medical assistants, with a surgical scheduler, registered nurses, X-Ray techs and nurse anesthetists that hep us with procedure here.

“I’m a nurse here at the Vascular Procedure Center and I’m the one who brings the patients back to their pre-op area and give them an overview of what their day is going to be like and what their discharge is going to be like as well as when they get home.”  – Nurse at the Vascular Procedure Center in Nashville

“The physicians, the employees, the patients are what make this procedure center thrive. It’s very enjoyable to see a patient who has chronic pain, unable to walk or struggle to walk, essentially be able to walk out of here feeling much better when they leave.” – TSC Employee at the Vascular Procedure Center

Advantages of a Vascular Procedure Center

One of the advantages in doing your procedures here at the VPC is that we have the availability of all the inventories of the latest gadgets and technologies that sometimes the hospitals don’t have.

What to expect at our vascular center

“I think that’s the major advantage – you’re going to get the full depth and breadth of vascular disease treatment and the very highly personalized care that I think is second to none to any other group in Nashville. Once patients actually come in for their procedure, then we’re able to sit down and talk to them about their disease process and exactly what is going to happen. Once we’re all done with the procedure itself they go to the recovery area. where one of our nurses spends one-on-one time with that patients making sure they recover well and that all of their questions are answered before they leave our procedure center.” – Dr. Bryan Fisher, vascular surgeon in Nashville. “I not only lowers the cost to themselves and the healthcare system, but it’s also more time efficient and again, allows us to deliver that personalized care that we always strive for.”

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