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TGH First In Tampa Region

Offering Same-Day Spinal Surgery

Tampa General Hospital “As a surgeon, my role is to distinguish whether surgery is Tampa General is ranked by U.S. News & World Report
(TGH) is the first health a patient’s best option,” he said. Kim works closely with 2024/25 as a high performing hospital for neurology and
system in the Tampa region to the TGH Neuroscience Institute’s team of chiropractors, neurosurgery, meaning the academic health system is among
treat a range of spine diseases acupuncturists, physical therapists and pain interventionists the top 10 percent of hospitals in the nation. Additionally, the
and conditions via minimally to determine the next course of action. “First, we try as many TGH Neuroscience Institute is one of the top neurology and
invasive endoscopic spine nonsurgical treatment options as possible,” he said. “In most spine programs in the U.S., according to Becker’s Hospital
surgery. Patients at the cases, surgery is usually a last resort.” Review’s 2023 list of “Hospitals and Health Systems with
academic health system’s “So far we’ve successfully treated athletes, soldiers and Spine and Neuroscience Programs to Know.”
TGH Neuroscience Institute even patients in their 90s,” said Kim. “Collaborating with Since 2020, Tampa General has been creating a
experience same-day Tampa General’s anesthesia team, we’ve been able to perform framework of state-of-the-art services for patients in Palm
discharge, quicker recovery, awake spine surgeries with minimal sedation, similar to Beach and Martin counties with the expertise and innovation
minimal downtime and less colonoscopies. This is a game-changer for patients usually of a preeminent academic health system. Patients treated by
pain. Dr. Patrick Kim deemed too sick for general anesthesia.” Tampa General East Coast physicians enjoy several benefits,
The procedure involves Kim notes that patients with ruptured discs typically recover including access to minimally invasive and complex
the surgeon inserting the endoscope through a tiny incision the same day, whereas those with more chronic illnesses surgeries that utilize state-of-the-art technologies. Tampa
about the size of a pencil tip to access an affected area, such recover in the span of a few days up to a week. General is the primary teaching affiliate of the USF Health
as a herniated disc. The device is then guided to the spine to TGH Neuroscience Institute surgeons perform more Morsani College of Medicine and is one of the largest
capture video that’s projected onto a monitor. The surgeon minimally invasive spine surgeries than any other hospital hospitals in the nation.
can also insert miniature tools through the endoscope to in the region, including endoscopic laser spine surgeries, For more information about the minimally invasive
help perform procedures to treat bone spurs, chronic pain, microdiscectomies, laminectomies, foraminotomies and endoscopic spine surgery offered at Tampa General, visit
degenerative disc disease, facet joint syndrome, herniated lumbar fusions. TGH.org/MinimallyInvasiveSpineSurgery.
discs, sciatic nerve compression and spinal stenosis.
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Tampa General’s Spine Neurosurgery Program leverages
a multidisciplinary team of physicians who specialize in the Over $1,000,000
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How do you know if you’re a candidate for spine surgery? in 2023.
Kim said that 80 percent of the U.S. adult population
experiences lower back pain or neck pain in their lifetime.
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