The numbers that the Surgery department of the Nostra Signora della Mercede hospital in Lanusei has been able to achieve in recent years under the guidance of the director, Dr. Giovanni Pietro Paolo Gusai , are excellent. According to data from the Programming, Management Control and Flows service of the ASL Ogliastra, in fact, between 2022 and 2024 the active mobility towards the Surgery of Nostra Signora della Mercede involved over 800 people. All patients who came to Ogliastra to undergo various types of interventions, such as major abdominal surgery in emergency and elective, lithotripsy service, abdominal wall interventions, endocrine surgery, major and minor urological surgery. Numbers that accredit the department of the Ogliastra hospital as a point of reference at a regional level for surgical patients.

"They come from all over Sardinia - explains Gusai - we owe a lot to our patients: their trust gives us the strength to move forward, they fuel the desire and enthusiasm of our team", which can count on doctors Claudia Burchi and Simona Aresu, doctor Ivo Deiana, doctor Mario Piroddi, and doctor Karel Andalia Perez, of Cuban origin, but now an Ogliastra resident by adoption.

«Without forgetting – Gusai recalls – the support of the doctors in additional service who ensure night care, of the nurses and of the Oss, all operators of the highest level».

A working group where the watchword is sharing. "The morning briefing and the late evening debriefing are the keys to the enthusiasm with which we face real oncological challenges and more - explains Dr. Burchi, a surgeon of Roman origins who has settled in Tortolì for twenty years - I believe this is our strength. With Dr. Gusai there is always a direct comparison and the choices are shared: within our team there is not a strictly hierarchical relationship - she continues - but a dialogic and horizontal one, where everyone contributes based on their own point of view".

Competence, preparation, empathy, but not only that. The growth of Lanusei Surgery has also been possible thanks to the introduction of new work techniques. «We are among the few hospitals that perform high definition video recordings - with the patient's consent - of all surgical procedures - continues Gusai - this allows us a detailed analysis of the operations and a continuous optimization of the processes, with the possibility of future planning in similar cases, the result of shared opinions».

The search for new professional skills and technological development are two essential points to carry forward this process of evolution. The ASL Ogliastra is constantly engaged in requesting competitions to Ares Sardegna for the recruitment of professionals (specialists and specialists), in order to complete the staff and ensure a quality service to the citizens of the Ogliastra area and beyond. "In the future I see a continuous technological and knowledge implementation for Surgery, also with the help of the new frontiers that artificial intelligence is bringing - concludes Gusai - for this reason we would like to have an integrated digital operating room available, with AI support - concludes the director of Surgery of the NS della Mercede - this would allow us to be able to perform endoscopic and ultrasound diagnostics".

(Online Union)

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