LGMC performing live procedures, broadcast worldwide

It's a first for Lafayette General Medical Center, performing surgical procedures on a live broadcast worldwide. Lafayette doctors took their expertise global. The live broadcast is a teaching tool, showcasing cutting-edge equipment that safely removes blockages, repairs arteries and reestablishes blood flow. While hospitals around the world could look in, this procedure was part of a conference on peripheral arterial disease, or PAD, in New Orleans. PAD affects 12 million Americans each year and the number is climbing. It increases your chance for coronary heart disease, a heart attack or stroke.