Chief Learning Officermagazine’s LearningElite and Editor’s Choice Awards Presented at Gala

Miami Beach, Fla. — University Health System was presented with a 2012 LearningElite award from Chief Learning Officer magazine at a gala dinner held at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla. University Health System was ranked number 43 in the award competition. More than 200 companies applied.

This 33-gallon container wouldn’t hold all of the donated blood products she received within 24 hours of delivery

Placenta Percreta happens in less than 1% of all pregnancies

Mom, dad & baby come back to University Hospital to thank the team

BACKGROUND: The obstetricians, trauma surgeons, anesthesiologists, urologists, specialized nurses and technicians assembled in the OB operating room at University Hospital knew they needed to have lots of blood ready to go when it was time to deliver Gina Walker’s baby. A few years ago, another patient with the same condition ended up needing more than 70 units. Yet, even with all of their preparation, they couldn’t have imagined Mrs. Walker would require 540 units (33.75 gallons) of donated blood products to replace what was literally pouring out of her body due to the complications of placenta percreta, an extremely rare pregnancy complication. As they put out an emergency call to all eligible staff to rush to the hospital’s blood bank to donate – since she was quickly going through their reserves – surgeons knew the odds of her surviving this type of blood loss and rapid replacement were very low. And, even if she did live, the likelihood that she would retain total brain function was even worse. How did she do? Just ask her doctors, who don’t generally use the term “miracle” but who can’t think of another, more appropriate, word.

Heart team at University Hospital is the first in South Texas to replace an aortic valve without open-heart surgery

(SAN ANTONIO, TX – April 6, 2012) Two South Texans are spending their Easter Weekend at University Hospital following a breakthrough heart valve replacement procedure that offers an option, and hope, for certain patients who have been told their disease was inoperable. It’s called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, and it received FDA approval last November as a treatment for adult patients with severe aortic valve stenosis who are too sick or frail to undergo traditional open-heart surgery. A team of UT Medicine San Antonio interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons is the first in South Texas to be approved to perform it. Following a rigorous and comprehensive training program, the team successfully completed two procedures over the past two days. A third TAVR procedure was cancelled due to a change in the patient’s health status. That patient successfully received a balloon aortic valvoplasty to repair and improve valve function.

FREE SAFETY PROGRAM FOR MOTORISTS CHECKS HOW WELL DRIVER & PERSONAL VEHICLE WORK TOGETHER

WHAT: Come witness the free community CarFit program that could make a life-saving difference to both older drivers and their loved ones. Developed through collaboration among the American Society on Aging, AAA, AARP and the American Occupational Therapy Association, CarFit is the first program to offer older adults the opportunity to check how their personal cars “fit” them.