Overland Park Orthopedics

While I was hospitalized at Overland Park Regional Medical Center last year Dr. Adam Kaye did the surgical procedure to insert a central catheter line (perma-​port) to be used as an easy intravenous access site during my upcoming chemo treatments. It’s a very quick and simple procedure, but not without some risk because the surgeon needs to be careful that the wires that are part of the apparatus don’t actually touch the heart muscle as it’s being inserted. In this case everything went fine and there were no problems with the insertion.
Approximately a year later the perma-​port stopped working properly, and I had completed the chemo treatments, so I had Dr. Kaye remove it at the beginning of April. This was another relatively simple procedure, done at the Overland Park Surgery Center under local anesthesia. It did involve a bit more tugging and pulling than I anticipated, but there was nothing painful about it. My only subsequent concern was that a good-​sized lump developed afterwards under the incision that was fairly tender to the touch and looked bruised. Follow-​ups with Dr. Kaye (a really nice, cheerful guy, by the way) were reassuring — sometimes after this kind of procedure where there’s a remaining pocket under the skin, where the port had been located, fluid can accumulate during the healing process. There was no infection, the small incision itself has healed nicely, and a month or so later the lump is now considerably smaller as the fluid is being reabsorbed and it’s no longer tender. I just saw Dr. Kaye again to check, and he recommended hot compresses on the site to accelerate the shrinking of the remaining lump. That’s certainly no big deal to do!
I appreciate Dr. Kaye’s accessibility and his willingness and ability to explain what was going on, both before the procedure and during the healing process. I’ve been fortunate to have never had any other surgeries, but that means that I didn’t know exactly what to expect at each stage and Dr. Kaye’s been good about explaining what I needed to know. Considering this experience, I’d be happy to have Dr. Kaye again as my surgeon if I ever need to have something done, and I can recommend him to others who may need surgery.