Dr. Saad Saad is a retired pediatric surgeon who has performed 1000’s of operations on both privileged and underprivileged children around the world. During his 40 plus years as a doctor, he has improved surgical procedures and created two improvements to surgical instruments that are being used today by other doctors.
Dr. Saad recognized a few areas during surgery that he felt could use improvement. The changes that Dr. Saad came up with would alter the process in a way that would be more efficient, and the patient’s experience during surgery and recovery would also benefit from the changes. He wanted to reduce the risk for his patients and lessen pain during recovery. With this in mind, he would change the surgical techniques he performed and patent two inventions that would help to enhance the process involved in surgery and reduce the risk to patients who are being operated on. One of the patents was for an endoscope with the ability to use suction and the other a newly invented catheter.
A medical catheter tube is used in a variety of different ways during surgery. One of those usages is to place the catheter inside the patient’s body during an operation. It is imperative that the surgical doctor always know precisely where the catheter is located. Before Dr. Saad Saad’s invention, the procedure was to either x-ray the patient to determine just where the catheter was or perform an MRI. Both methods were inconvenient, and the x-rays were a concern due to the radiation exposure. With the newly designed patented invention, the surgeon was able to quickly scan the body with his newly developed small scanning device to locate the catheter quickly.
The second invention that Dr. Saad produced was an improvement to the endoscope. This is a standard medical device that surgeons use to see inside a patient’s body while they are being examined. They can insert the instrument with a small camera inside a patient’s body and view places that they would either not be able to or not be able to get to without surgically operating on the patient. The problem arises when body fluids get in the way, blocking the view of the camera that is attached to the endoscope. This would cause the doctor to have to remove the endoscope and go in with a suction tube to remove the fluids. After the fluids were removed, the endoscope would be reinserted into the patient’s body again.
The newly improved endoscope allows the doctor to inject fluid to cleanse the area and suction the fluid back out. This creates clear vision into the area. The invention is being used today by doctors that perform procedures that use an endoscope.
Dr. Saad Saad has had a successful 40-year career as a pediatric surgeon. With over 7000 surgeries performed during his time as a pediatric surgeon, he has improved surgical processes and has redesigned and improved surgical instruments that are helping other surgeons strengthen their medical procedures. Learn more: https://www.meridianhealth.com/location/meridian-faculty-pediatric-surgery-eatontown/index.aspx