Oman surgery broadcast live to Italy

Sept 25: The National Heart Centre of the Royal Hospital, represented by the cardiac catheter department, conducted a catheter operation on a patient under local anesthesia, which was transmitted to the Total Occlusion & Bifurcation Interventions (TOBI) Conference in Italy.

The operation was followed-up through the interaction between the doctors in the TOBI conference along with the doctors in Operation Theater in the Royal Hospital.

A medical team performed the operation under the supervision of Dr Mohammed al Riyami, senior consultant in the Centre.

Dr Al Riyami stressed that TOBI is an international conference held annually in Rome, the capital of Italy and attended by a group of specialists from all different specializations.

In addition, for the first time, the operation has transmitted live from the National Heart Center to the TOBI conference in Italy which brought together around 1,500 doctors from Europe, North Africa and Middle East.

The Sultanate, represented by the National Heart Center has been nominated to perform this operation and broadcasted live to the TOBI conference comes after the visit of Prof Rime Raimer and to what he touched in the Center through the availability of advanced equipment, as well as due to efficiency of the medical staff. Dr Mohammed said that the operation is praised by the all attendees at the conference.