Surgeons at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and a biomedical engineer teamed up to devise a new way to "fix," or stabilize, broken ribs. By reducing trauma and pain, the procedure could benefit the 100,000 patients per year in the U.S. who suffer multiple broken ribs.
![Randy Haluck](/sites/harrisburg/files/styles/photo_gallery_large/public/Haluck.png?itok=mIesB_kQ)
As chief of minimally invasive surgery at the Penn State Medical Center, Dr. Randy Haluck had a lot of experience using a thoracoscope to do surgery in the chest through very small incisions. He thought the scope could be adapted to repair broken ribs in a way that was much less traumatic to patients than the conventional procedure.
Credit: Penn State Health