Flap Monitoring in Breast Reconstruction and the History of the Guinea Pig Club in Plastic Surgery

Episode 25: Founder of the DiepCJourney Foundation, Terri Coutee, interviews Rob Pupelis, CEO of Spectros MDI, to discuss Flap Monitoring in Breast Reconstruction.

Since having DIEP flap, a plastic reconstructive surgery technique performed to rebuild breasts after a mastectomy, Terri Coutee has been fascinated with the field of plastic surgery and topics related specifically to breast reconstruction.

Terri Coutee, Founder of DiepCFoundation, interviews Rob Pupelis, CEO, of Spectros for the first episode of season three of the DiepCJourney podcast. Rob shares the story of his visit to the Queen Victory hospital (QVH) in England. He was able to visit Queen Victoria while attending the London Breast Meeting in late 2022. While at the conference, Rob demonstrated the T-Stat tissue oximetry system developed by Spectros. T-Stat is used to monitor flaps in breast reconstruction and in our conversation, we discuss the efficacy of the T-Stat system and why it improves the surgeon’s success rate of flap procedures like the DIEP flap.

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