Tag: Surgery

Mercy Ships’ 100,000th operation

June 6, 2019

Dr. Brian Barki, an anesthesiologist from Tulsa, helped lead the 100,000th free surgical procedure for the global charity, Mercy Ships. Dr. Barki and a team of medical professional volunteers helped transform the life of a 7-month-old patient in Guinea by performing cleft lip surgery while onboard the world’s largest nonprofit hospital ship. Aissata, a 7-month-old…

Innovative technique by OU will help dialysis patients

April 11, 2019

For the first time in many years, a major technological advance is changing treatment for patients requiring dialysis for kidney failure. OU Medicine vascular surgeons in Tulsa were the first surgical team in the United States to perform the new procedure using a device called the Ellipsys Vascular Access System. Traditionally, patients with kidney failure…