Robotic One Anesthetic Diagnosis and Treatment (RODAT)
Collaborative care teams at UMass Memorial Health have developed a pathway called robotic one anesthetic diagnosis and treatment (RODAT) to assess lung nodules. In this pathway, interventional pulmonology teams perform bronchoscopies and work with pathologists to determine if a lung nodule is cancerous, and if it is, the nodule is removed in the same anesthetic setting by a thoracic surgeon.
This is a significant advancement in the care of patients with early-stage cancerous lung nodules, cutting down the diagnosis-to-treatment time from weeks to a one-day occurrence.