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FROM US TO YOU
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PAGE 6 | [TECHNOLOGY] TIPS FOR PROTECTING YOUR ONLINE REPUTATION
JULIE REILAND, MD, and AVERA’S
have a beautiful Spring here in the South
PAGE 8 | THIS MONTH ONLINE The 2019 Go Red Event, MED’s NEW Job Board, and a roundup of exclusive content available only on the website.
Dakota region! We are kicking things
How Avera’s holistic approach to breast care, including IORT and oncoplastic surgery, protects quality of life while saving lives. PAGE
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off with this colorful issue of MED, the region's premier source for medical community news, features and events. In this month's cover article, we discuss the evolution of IORT for breast cancer
PAGE 16 | [INTERVIEW] Jill Weimer,
with two members of Avera's breast care
PhD, on Women in Research
team. Our thanks to breast surgeon Julie
PAGE 17 | Clinic-Based Food Bank Supports Vulnerable Patients Believing that “food is medicine”, a Rapid City clinic serves food-insecure patients with the state’s first clinic-based pantry
BREAST CARE INNOVATORS
May flowers, we are sure to
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PAGE 12 | NEWS & NOTES New positions, promotions, awards, & more
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F APRIL SHOWERS bring
■ By Alex Strauss
Reiland, MD, and to radiation oncologist Kyle Arneson, MD, for the illuminating conversation. This issue also features articles on technology, research, outreach, education, and an advanced procedure that led to a
PAGE 18 | Black Hills Doctor Saves Man’s Frostbitten Fingers with Clot Buster
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PAGE 20 | Driver’s Education Eye Bank Program Demystifies Organ Donation for New Drivers
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ON THE COVER: Julie Reiland, MD, and Avera’s Breast Care Innovators Back row: Breast Surgeon Wade Dosch, MD, and Radiation Oncologist Kyle Arneson, MD Front row: Breast Surgeon Tricia Merrigan, MD, Radiation Oncologist Carolyn Savioz, MD, and Breast Surgeon Julie Reiland, MD. Photo courtesy Avera
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[ INTERVIEW ]
Protecting Your Online Reputation BY DEAN MCCONNELL
T
HE INTERNET PROVIDES many forums where patients can publish comments about their medical care, and this
can include negative comments. Patient complaints often share one
• Remember that a negative
• Before responding, cool off.
comment is only one patient
Let it sit overnight and ask a
from your practice. A majority
trusted colleague to review
of the other patients are most
your response.
likely very happy.
• Be careful about HIPAA. Do not
• While action is often prudent,
include treatment or payment
common denominator—a breakdown
it needs to be measured and
information or provide patient
in the physician-patient relationship.
appropriate to the context.
names or identifying information
What is the best way to deal with negative online comments?
RECOGNIZE THAT THE PATIENT IS UNHAPPY •N egative comments invoke defensive
in your response.
RESPOND POSITIVELY • Don't fall into the trap of joining an insult contest. A belligerent commenter may be hoping to
reactions. Despite these normal
engage in a public debate in
reactions, the patient’s concerns
which they are not bound by
must be addressed in a professional
any rules.
manner.
• Acknowledge that the patient is not satisfied, that patient satisfaction is important, and ask to take the conversation offline to address the issue. • People will often say things online that they would never say face-to-face. A phone call
• Sometimes (e.g., when a negative comment appears on your own practice website), an online response may be called for. Ignoring a complaint might indicate that you are not attentive or concerned. • Don’t simply delete adverse comments from your website. An author may re-publish —and embellish—a neglected complaint on other sites.
REACT APPROPRIATELY • Patient complaints always
provides a better chance of
have a basis in a perception.
connecting with the patient
An explanation and an apology
and solving the problem.
may be all it takes to resolve
• Tailor the response to the specific complaint and send it
the situation. • Sometimes patients are right.
via a private, secure medium
Maybe they had a bad interaction
such as a letter or phone call
with your staff. Take this
(secure email is also okay, if the
opportunity to evaluate the
patient has set up an account
practice and improve it.
with your practice). It should be documented like any other patient communication.
• Try to understand the situation from the patient’s perspective and consider whether there is some concession you can live with.
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• Patients who have been heard will sometimes remove their own negative comment or, better yet, post a positive one about the doctor listening and addressing the problem. • Maybe a patient is just not the right fit for your practice and you can provide him or her with a referral to a colleague that might be a better fit.
RALLY THE TROOPS Certain activities help build a positive presence online. Suggested efforts include outreach to patients to build a good following online or asking patients to post reviews. When there is a negative comment, it will look like an outlier and provoke positive responses from your followers. ❖
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Breast surgeon Julie Reiland, MD, and Radiation Oncologist Kyle Arneson, MD, position the tube for delivering IORT to a breast cancer patient.
JULIE REILAND, MD, AND AVERA’S BREAST CARE INNOVATORS THE EVOLUTION OF IORT The Mobetron linear accelerator delivers electron-based IORT.
S
INCE 2011, JULIE REILAND, MD,
and her partners
at Avera Medical Group Comprehensive Breast Care have treated nearly 200 patients with electron-based intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT), making them one of the highest-volume centers for this technique in the country. In appropriate patients
with small, non-aggressive tumors, IORT may allow for a single “one-and-done” dose of radiation. In other cases, post-surgery radiation can be dropped to just three weeks instead of the usual six with a “boost” of IORT. The American Society for Radiation Oncology now recommends IORT as a standard treatment for breast cancer. By combining it with oncoplastic surgery, Reiland and her team have achieved some remarkable results and added to the understanding of how this approach can preserve both lives and quality of life. She and her colleague
KYLE ARNESON, MD, of Avera Medical Group Radi-
ation Oncology, spoke with MED about the evolution of Avera’s innovative, holistic approach to breast cancer care.
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MED: What led to the
Also, we don’t have to go through any
development of IORT?
tissue to reach the bed, so we are able
JR:
to spare the skin.
About 85 percent of breast cancers recur within 2 cen-
timeters of the original tumor. So we started to think, maybe we don’t have
JR:
X-rays lose energy the further out they go. With the
linear accelerator, we can dial in
to irradiate the whole breast. At first,
exactly when the electrons drop off
we were delivering accelerated partial
their energy into the tissue. The elec-
breast irradiation with brachytherapy
trons come from above and go 2 or 3
by putting balloon catheters in the
centimeters deep in a six-inch radius.
breast. But you have to keep a space
It’s like dropping a bomb. We put a
open for that, so it left patients with
copper plate below the breast so no
a deformed breast. IORT is the next
electrons go further than we want
evolution because it does not require
them to.
that space.
MED: Why would a patient
Breast surgeon Tricia Merrigan, MD, discusses breast cancer treatment options with a patient.
MED: Can you explain the IORT procedure?
JR:
The tumor must be smaller than 2 centimeters. Once
we’ve removed it, we loosen up all the tissue around the defect and pull it
MED: There are different
consider lumpectomy and
approaches to breast cancer
IORT over mastectomy?
together into one tight circle and bring
radiotherapy. How did Avera
JR:
This is exactly the way I repair the
settle on IORT with the Mobitron?
JR:
In 2011, we received a 2.5
Some women come in and say ‘I want the breast gone
so I don’t have to worry about it again’.
the radiation tube over that circle. breast when I’m doing oncoplastic surgery anyway, so it is a beautiful
million dollar grant and
But your risk comes from your tumor
Avera said ‘you pick the machine that
biology, not your surgery type.
you want to buy’. One device delivers
Lumpectomy with radiation has about
electrons and the other delivers low-
a 10 to 15 percent chance of recurrence
dose X-rays. I knew that we had been
at 10 years compared to a 10 percent
using electrons every day since the
chance with mastectomy. To me, it
to the surgery time just because of the
1960s, so I decided that my best bet
just doesn’t make sense to be remov-
preparation.
was to use the best energy source that
ing breasts on both sides for a five
we knew about. So that’s what we did,
percent benefit. If you keep your
even though the Mobitron was six
breasts and you don’t have significant
times the price of the other machine.
risk factors, you have a ½ percent
KA:
chance per year of developing another
Treating cancer with electrons has a very long
track record. It has been battle-tested in the clinic for decades, although it is fairly new to bring it into the OR. Using electrons allow us to define that tumor bed very specifically, keeping radiation away from skin, lungs, and heart.
MED: How is electron-based IORT
combination.
KA:
It only takes about two minutes to deliver the
radiation, but it adds about 30 minutes
MED: What kind of outcomes are you seeing?
KA:
Ultimately time will tell. We have to follow these
breast cancer in either breast. And you
patients for multiple years in order to
have the benefit of feeling good about
show the value for breast cancer con-
yourself and how you look.
trol. At this point, everyone is very
When I explain this to eligible
pleased with the cosmetic outcomes
patients, there are very few who don’t
and with the convenience of this
take me up on the “one-and-done”
approach.
option. We recently completed our
JR:
100th single-dose case.
KA:
I tell patients that, here
We have three trials running because we want all of our
patients to be part of a protocol. We
at Avera, they have sev-
want to be good stewards of the tech-
eral good options. We are always
nology. Even now, I have patients who
Our ability to shape the
working together as a team to maxi-
come in and say ‘I feel kind of guilty,
beam and to control the
mize the benefits and minimize the
I feel like I never had breast cancer.’
depth of the electrons allows us to be
risks. IORT can maximize that risk to
Their breasts are lifted and perky and
very specific and target that critical 2
benefit ratio, especially for rural
there is none of the hardness and tan-
centimeter area around where the
patients who may be looking at weeks
ning of the skin that you can get with
tumor was with a full dose of radiation.
of travel for treatment.
radiation. ❖
different from other approaches?
KA:
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Happenings around the region
News & Notes
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AVERA Four Avera hospitals earned spots in the Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals and three South Dakota Avera facilities have been named in the Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals. iVantage Health Analytics and The Chartis Center for Rural Health named Avera Queen of Peace (Mitchell), Avera Sacred Heart (Yankton), Avera St. Luke's (Aberdeen) and Avera St. Mary's (Pierre) as top rural hospitals. Avera Hand County Memorial Hospital (Miller), Milbank Area Hospital and Avera Gregory Hospital have been recognized in the Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals. The iVantage Health Analytics’ Hospital Strength INDEX is the industry’s most comprehensive and objective assessment of rural provider performance. Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center in Sioux Falls is expanding its ICU. The ICU has added space for six additional patient beds for a total of 28 private rooms, and each room has doubled in size. The new ICU includes ceiling-mounted patient lifts, booms that house monitors and keep cords
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and cables out of the way, state-of-the-art vital sign and cardiac monitors, more advanced beds, and dedicated water lines for each room for acute dialysis, if needed. The ICU is part of $41 million in updates to the Avera McKennan campus.
BLACK HILLS Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield has named Regional Health’s Heart and Vascular Institute a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care. Blue Distinction Centers show expertise in delivering improved patient safety and better health outcomes. Regional Health is one of just two South Dakota healthcare providers to receive this designation. In 2018, Regional Health Rapid City Hospital was designated a Blue Distinction Center for Maternity Care.
Seven contractors and subcontractors who built the new Regional Health Custer Hospital and Clinic have been honored for their craftsmanship. Builders involved in the Regional Health Orthopedic & Specialty Hospital and the Regional Health Sturgis Hospital and Clinic addition also received awards. The builders were honored at the Construction Industry Center’s 64th Annual Meeting and Craftsmanship Awards. The CIC is the building industry organization for the Black Hills and areas of Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and Nebraska.
BILLIE JO LEWIS Billie Jo Lewis, RN on the medical-surgical unit at Regional Health Orthopedic & Specialty Hospital in Rapid City, has been recognized with a DAISY Award. A national program, the award is presented to nurses across the US who go above and beyond for their patients and community. Lewis was nominated by two patients who recognized her compassion, empathy, kindness to patient families and skill as a patient educator.
WENDY JANKE Wendy Janke, LPN at Regional Health Medical Clinic in Lead-Deadwood, has also received a DAISY Award. Janke was nominated by a patient’s child who recognized her ability to make her father comfortable and to treat him with respect. Lead-Deadwood Hospital and Clinic presents the DAISY Award twice a year.
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SANFORD The US Department of Veterans Affairs and Sanford Health will provide pharmacogenetic testing at no cost to veterans as part of a partnership to reduce adverse medication reactions. PHASeR: Pharmacogenomics Action for Cancer Survivorship will provide tests to help determine which medications will be most effective for patients, improving access to appropriate treatments and reducing adverse drug reactions. The program will initially enroll cancer survivors but will expand to up to 250,000 veterans at 125 sites by 2022.
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SIOUXLAND MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center has installed a 128-slice CT system, offering higher image quality and a dual energy scan mode which helps to better portray tissue types. The new CT will provide faster and more accurate diagnosis and treatment. The machine will also reduce radiation exposure and is accessible and accommodates many different body types. “The speed of this new scan will allow us to do more interventional studies in house and to do more procedures in less time," says Radiology Manager, Thomas E. Carmichael.
UnityPoint Health – Sioux City has appointed Jane Arnold, MSA, MA, OTR/L, as the new Ambulatory Vice President of Clinic Operations for UnityPoint Clinic in Sioux City. In her new role, Arnold will provide executive responsibility for the operations of the eight clinics in Sioux City. Arnold began her career with UnityPoint Health in 2000 as an occupational therapist. Most recently, she has served in a dual role as VP of Hospital Operations for St. Luke’s as well as the Regional VP of Operations for UnityPoint at Home – Sioux City.
RICHARD LAWTON Orthopaedic Surgeon RIchard Lawton, MD, has joined CNOS, PC, in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota. Dr. Lawton attended Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and completed his residency at the Mayo Clinic. He did his fellowship at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Vail, Colorado, where he served as an assistant team doctor for the Denver Broncos, Colorado Rockies, and US Ski Team. Dr. Lawton had been practicing in Durango since 2002. He specializes in sports medicine and joint replacement.
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Happenings around the region
DANIELLE PRINCE Danielle Prince, MD, has joined UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Siouxland PACE as Associate Medical Director. Dr. Prince earned her medical degree at Creighton University in Omaha and completed her family medicine residency at the Siouxland Medical Education Foundation in Sioux City. She is board certified through the American Board of Family Medicine. Previously, Dr. Prince worked as a family physician and as Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Mercy Medical Center. She continues to work as a hospitalist at UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s. Five UnityPoint Health hospitals are listed in the Chartis Center for Rural Health 2019 Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals. Greater Regional Health (Creston), Loring Hospital (Sac City), Cherokee Regional Medical Center, Humboldt County Memorial Hospital and UnityPoint Health – Jones Regional Medical Center (Anamosa) are 5 of the 15 Iowa hospitals to make the Chartis list. UnityPoint Health – Trinity Regional Medical Center (Fort Dodge) is one of four Iowa hospitals on Chartis’ Top 100 Rural and Community Hospitals list.
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UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s and Cardiovascular Associates, PC, (CVA) has been granted a three-year term of accreditation by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in Echocardiography in the area(s) of Adult Stress and Adult Transthoracic. This marks the fifth consecutive three-year accreditation awarded St. Luke’s and CVA since 2008. Comprised of a detailed self-evaluation followed by a thorough review by a panel of medical experts, the IAC accreditation process asses both the critical operational and technical components of the applicant facility, including representative case studies and their corresponding final reports.
ASHLESHA KAUSHIK Ashlesha Kaushik, MD, FAACP, with UnityPoint Clinic Pediatric Infectious Disease, has been appointed to the American Academy of Pediatrics Iowa Chapter Committee on Immunizations and is the American Academy of Pediatrics Iowa Chapter Infectious Disease Champion. Dr. Kaushik is the only pediatric infectious disease specialist in Siouxland. She is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine and the Midwest Society for Pediatric Research and has been elected as an overseas fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK.
INDEPENDENTS & THE VA
Prairie Lakes Healthcare System (PLHS) is among the Top 20 Rural Community Hospitals in the nation as determined by iVantage Health Analytics. PLHS was recently notified of the designation by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA). PLHS serves a ten county region in eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota. PLHS provides care at its hospital in Watertown as well as specialty services that are uncommon in similar rural settings.
Pioneer Memorial Nursing Home has again received a Five-Star Quality Rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The scoring system includes a nursing home’s most recent state health inspections, quality measures and staffing levels. Pioneer Memorial Nursing Home is a 52-bed skilled nursing facility in Viborg. VA Black Hills Health Care System held a public open house in March to showcase this year’s creative arts competition submissions. The competition includes 51 categories in the visual arts division that range from oil painting to leatherwork to paint-bynumber kits. There are 100 categories in the performing arts. A panel of local artists judge entries based on creativity, skill, originality, and overall presentation. Select winners at the local level are invited to compete at the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival. The South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations (SDAHO) is focusing on the state’s nursing home crisis at the Annual Post-Acute Care Conference in Sioux Falls April 24 to 25 (see the calendar). This year’s conference will focus on innovation, starting with the keynote speech on healthcare consumer technology. Other sessions include an introduction to remote patient monitoring, a digital device being used in assisted living, and the use of pharmacogenetics in post-acute care.
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[ INTERVIEW ]
Jill Weimer, PhD, on the Joys and Challenges of Being a Woman in Research JILL WEIMER, PHD,
MED: What do you think attracts women to research and
Sanford’s Senior Director of
what special qualities do they bring?
Therapeutic Development,
JW: Women are naturally inquisitive and many of us like
was the first person hired
the idea of using our passions and interests to answer
when the organization began
questions that can help people. Our natural compassion
building its pediatric research
can be a real motivator. But it can also make it difficult.
program in 2009. Today, the
You have to be able to rein in your emotions enough to
Weimer Lab, which focuses
focus and make critical, scientifically-based decisions. I
on rare pediatric diseases, is
have to make sure I take time to process and channel my
one of about a dozen Sanford
emotions and not be dismissive. I don’t want to become
labs being run by women.
outwardly aggressive with colleagues. As females, this is
Dr. Weimer spoke with MED
something we have to guard against.
about the joys and unique challenges of being a female
MED: What message do you have for younger female
researcher.
researchers?
MED: How did you first get involved in research? JW: I had an absolutely phenomenal high school science teacher in the little Missouri town where I grew up. He
was a certified scuba instructor who trained us and drove rks better for the info.
JW: Two things. First, there are a lot of support programs and resources out there. At Sanford, we started an organization called Graduate Women in Science in 2010. There is also a Medical Women in Science. NIH even has programs. These are great tools for women at all stages of
us to the Gulf of Mexico. My senior project was focused on
their careers. Second, there is no one right path. You have
how deep sea diving could affect eye development, using
to decide what is right for you, whether that means having
a frog model. We built hyperbaric chambers in our class-
kids right after postdoc or waiting until mid-career. Don’t
room. So I was passionate about basic biomedical research
let anyone tell you that you’re doing it wrong. ❖
very early on.
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Clinical Dietician Theresa Real, Mary Beth McLellan, RN, and Dr. Bobbie Schneller check out food labels at the food bank located in the Regional Health Family Medicine Residency Clinic. Photo courtesy Regional Health.
Clinic-Based Food Bank Supports Vulnerable Patients BY ALEX STRAUSS
L
AST YE AR , A STU DY con-
food at a discount through the Feeding South
ducted in Rapid City uncovered
Dakota distribution center in Rapid City.
a shocking statistic: Some four
Caregivers and others have donated cooking
thousand people in the neigh-
utensils, crockpots, and even a freezer for
borhood of the Family Medicine Residency
meat and produce. Since October, more than
Clinic are “food insecure”. It was a statistic
2,500 pounds of food has been distributed to
the clinic could not ignore.
48 families, including full Christmas meals
“Patients who are food insecure choose
for nine families.
the foods they can afford in the moment,” says
“We used to think our patients were
Dr. Bobbie Schneller, director of the residency
non-compliant,” says Mary Beth McClellan,
program. “Unfortunately, these are often the
Manager of Clinical Operations. “Now, we
foods that are least likely to be healthy.”
understand they were just unable. When they
So last October, the clinic made a bold move
have the right tools, they are very concerned
and opened an in-house food pantry. Patients
about their health and interested in ways to
who answer yes to one of two screening ques-
improve it.”
tions can take home the food they want. The
“Patients are often doing the best they can
clinic’s dietician is on hand to offer advice on
within their means. This is a mindset shift that
choosing and preparing it healthfully.
needs to happen among providers nationwide,”
“Our goal is to give them healthier options,” says Schneller. Regional Health purchases much of the
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Patients are often doing the best they can within their means.
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says Dr. Schneller, who anticipates an eventual decline in obesity and diabetes. “We hope to be the start of something important.” ❖
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Bhaskar Purushottam, MD
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THE DOWNSIDE IS, IF YOU DON’T USE THE APPROPRIATE DOSING, YOU RUN A RISK OF SERIOUS BLEEDING. BUT IN THIS CASE, I THOUGHT THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE THE FINGERS OUTWEIGHED THE DOWNSIDES.
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BLACK HILLS DOCTOR SAVES MAN'S FROSTBITTEN FINGERS WITH CLOT BUSTER OME QUICK THINKING, trans-
cardiologist Bhaskar Purushottam, MD,
atlantic collaboration, and the
who specializes in vascular medicine.
innovative use of a clot busting
“We were really worried that he could
drug are credited with saving the
lose all of his fingers,” says Dr. Purushottam.
frostbitten fingers of a 58-year-old Rapid
“I knew of this vascular treatment where you
City cook.
put a clot busting drug directly into the
The man showed up at the Regional
vessel, but I had not done it. There are only
Health ED after having been locked out of his
about 60 cases in the literature, so not a lot.”
hotel room for hours in the dead of winter.
Purushottam contacted his former
By the time he arrived, the frostbite was
mentor at Mount Sinai Hospital in New
severe. The case was further complicated
York, who contacted a colleague in Europe.
by the fact that the patient was a lifelong
Together, they helped him come up with a
smoker who suffered from peripheral vascu-
plan of action.
lar disease. Although the team did not know
“I told the patient, ‘Look, I’ve never done
it at the time, he also had an occluded artery
this in Rapid City, but I’m very well trained
in his leg.
and this is very similar to the procedure
The ED doctor called on interventional
we do in the legs’,” says Purushottam. “It is
Frostbitten fingers, pre-intervention
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essentially an intra arterial thrombolysis. The downside is, if you don’t use the appropriate dosing, you run a risk of serious bleeding. But in this case, I thought the opportunity to save the fingers outweighed the downsides.” After a few hours of consideration, the patient agreed and the procedure was performed 24 hours after he had entered the ED. Dr. Purushottam accessed the hands through an artery in the groin and used a wire to place a tiny catheter in each frostbitten finger. Dye was injected, followed by a small dose of the clot dissolving drug. “This drug has been well studied, so we know it does a great job,” says Dr. Purushottam. “But
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DRIVER’S EDUCATION
EYE BANK PROGRAM DEMYSTIFIES ORGAN DONATION FOR NEW DRIVERS
BY ALEX STRAUSS
T
HERE ARE FEW MORE pas-
titled “A Legacy of Life”, includes donation
sionate and outspoken fans of
facts, pictures, videos, real talk about his own
Dakota Lions Sight & Health
experience as a recipient, stories of young
than Alan Berdahl. Not only has
donors, take-home materials, and plenty of
Berdahl served as the organization’s Com-
time for Q & A.
munity Outreach Coordinator since 2013,
“Many kids are surprised to find out that
but he is also the father of DLSH medical
hundreds of grafts can come from a single
director John Berdahl, MD, and the recipi-
donor because we recover so many different
ent of donor corneas that saved his sight.
types of tissue,” says Berdahl.
A sufferer of Fuch’s
Last year, he spoke to 67
Dystrophy, Berdahl received
driver’s ed classes, including
new corneal tissue in a sur-
public schools in Sioux Falls
gery his son performed in
and Rapid City and surround-
2014. The former band direc-
ing communities, reaching
tor joined the eye bank in
more than 2,200 young people.
2010 as a distribution spe-
“Until they are 18, their
cialist. When it became clear
parents have to sign off on
that his gregarious person-
organ donation, so I give
ality was wasted in the lab,
them an ‘assignment’ to go
he started speaking to com-
home and talk to their par-
munity groups instead.
ents about this,” says Berdahl.
“The goal is always to
“This is probably the first truly mature decision that
increase number of donors,” says Berdahl. “I realized that one of the key
these kids have to make. This is not an easy
groups we needed to be talking to were people
conversation.”
in driver’s ed because they are going to be
But it may be a conversation that is already
asked about being organ donors when they
making a difference. In 2017, 59 percent of
apply for their license,”
South Dakota drivers registered as a donor or
In 2014, Berdahl developed and launched the first and only eye and tissue donation education program geared specifically for driver’s ed students.
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THIS IS PROBABLY THE FIRST TRULY MATURE DECISION THAT THESE KIDS HAVE TO MAKE. THIS IS NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION.
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maintained their donor status. In 2018, that number rose to 61 percent. “If mom and dad aren’t donors, it is possible that the conversation with their son or
“It’s a no-brainer but no one has ever done
daughter might prompt them to become
it,” says Berdahl. “In Minnesota, they have to
donors,” says Berdahl. “But, in my mind,
spend some time talking about organ dona-
whether or not they become donors is less
tion. But you can’t ask questions of a video.
important than the fact that they had the
Kids ask me questions all the time.”
conversation. If they have the conversation,
Berdalh’s hour-and-a-half presentation,
“
we win.” ❖
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24th Annual North Central Heart Vascular Symposium
24th Annual
Friday, May 10, 2019 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Vascular Symposium
Sioux Falls Convention Center 1201 N. West Ave. Sioux Falls, S.D. Hear from vascular experts around the country as they discuss the latest technology and treatment for vascular disease.
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