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Big winTeam Canada beat Team USA in sledge hockey action at Bramp-ton’s Cruisers Cup. See page 9

Not giving upPeel Regional Police are still trying to track down � ve transport trucks identi� ed as “vehicles of inter-est” in the hit-and-run death of a Brampton father. See page 3

Humane killingsPeel Regional Police have reported to have killed 133 animals since 2010. See page 4

LEST WE FORGET Second World War veteran Les Llewellyn salutes as he supervises the wreath laying during a Remembrance Day parade and service held by Branch 609 of the Royal Canadian Legion on Sunday at Chinguacousy Park. Today many will recall the end of hostilities of the First World War in 1918 in ceremonies around the world. Photo by Rob Beintema

Surgical team on the cutting-edge

at Brampton Civic Hospital

By Radhika Panjwanirpanjwani@bramptonguardian.com

Four days after undergoing surgery to repair a life-threatening abdominal aortic aneurysm at the Brampton Civic Hospital (BCH), Albert Guhl, 86, was up on his feet, cooking up a storm for his family at his Bolton home.

Guhl’s surgery marked a historic milestone for William Osler Health System (Osler) in that the Peel senior was among the � rst to bene� t from the cutting-edge, non-invasive endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) technique performed recently by a team of top-notch doctors, nurses and medical radiation technologists.

Guhl’s scan in September showed his aneurysm – bulge in the aortic artery – had grown to more than � ve centimetres (normal diameter of the aorta in the abdomen is about two centimeters). Also, patients with aneurysms show no symptoms and are consid-ered to be ticking time bombs because the ruptur-ing of the enlarged artery can cause massive internal bleeding that is usually fatal.

� e surgical team that performed the � rst-ever EVAR at Osler included vascular and endovascular surgeons Drs. Varun Kapila and Leonard Tse and leading interventional radiologists Drs. Je� rey Jaskol-ka and David Kelton.

“Dr. Kapila is my hero,” said a grateful Guhl. “I am a bit sore from where the two incisions were and that’s understandable. Other than that, I feel great. � is (surgery) went fast and I am glad it did because

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CITY OF BRAMPTONBID CALL NO. T2015-083

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Procedure is safer, less invasive for patientsContinued from page 1

otherwise I would have kept thinking: Will I wake up tomor-row?”

Traditionally, before EVAR, patients with abdominal aor-tic aneurysm would have had to undergo abdominal (stom-ach) surgery called open surgical repair (OSR). This would have involved making a large incision in the stomach area under full anesthesia. The procedure posed risks for those that had other underlying medical conditions.

The new EVAR is safe and relatively less painful as pa-tients are discharged within a day or two as opposed to at least a week’s stay at the hospital previously, explained Kap-ila, chief, division of vascular surgery, WOHS.

“With EVAR, patients with these high risk factors can have a minimally invasive surgery and achieve the same outcomes,” he said. “The endovascular therapeutic pro-gram recently introduced at Osler leverages the strengths of endovascular, vascular surgeons and the interventional radiologists and the skill sets each of us has in order to of-fer a completely novel therapy to our patients right in their backyards.”

Kapila said the collaborative approach to patient-care prac-ticed in many healthcare organizations in and around Toronto and the U.S. will now be able available to Osler patients.

To that end, Osler has been able to recruit some vascular and interventional “superstars” to its fold including Kapila and his team.

The introduction of the endovascular therapeutics pro-gram means Bramptonians will have easy access to cutting-edge treatments right here in the community, said Matthew Anderson, CEO and president, WOHS.

In EVAR surgery, the doctors repair the aneurysm by making small incisions in the groin area. Then, using a de-livery system, in this case a long catheter, the surgeons in-sert stent grafts (a tube-like structure made of fabric and supported by a metallic mesh) inside the aorta. The stent is sealed above the artery and below the aneurysm in a way that it bypasses the enlarged portion completely allowing blood to flow to the legs.

At Brampton Civic Hospital, plans are currently under-way to build a state-of-the-art operating theatre (OT) for vascular surgeries. The OT will be equipped with advanced tools that will allow physicians to offer advanced techniques to treat other conditions as well, said Kelton.

“Just like we used small incisions to go inside the aorta with EVAR, we are also doing a similar procedure for legs to prevent amputations in the case of diabetic wounds,” he said. “We are excited about the future and realize all this pos-sible because of the leadership of the hospital. The future of medicine and patient-centric care is through a collaborative approach and we at Osler are hoping to be leaders.”

Dr. Varun Kapila (left) holds a stent and Dr. David Kelton with the catheter that acts as a delivery system for a new, less invasive endo vascular aneurysm repair. Staff photo by Rob Beintema