Transfusion-Free Medicine & Surgery

Surgery at Rhode Island Hospital

Rhode Island Hospital is a teaching hospital—all of the physicians and surgeons who participate in the transfusion-free program are on the faculty of Brown Medical School and are experts in their fields.

Many of them have pioneered technologies that have led to more and more non-invasive procedures. For example, in orthopedics, arthroscopy is performed nearly twice as often as open surgery. Minimally invasive or “band-aid” surgeries requiring only brief hospitalization have replaced many more difficult procedures that required longer hospital stays.

Additionally, non-operative techniques for treating cardiac disease and cancer are innovative transfusion-free methods being pioneered at Rhode Island Hospital.

Our image-guided tumor ablation program, for example, is unique in the nation. Coronary angioplasty using drug-eluting stents, and microwave ablation of liver tumors are only two of the procedures first performed here as part of national clinical trials.

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