Robotic-Assisted Surgery

Patient and Surgeon Benefits

Patient Benefits

Since only small incisions and tiny instruments are used in da Vinci procedures, patients experience less postoperative pain. Other patient benefits include:

• Shorter hospital stay
• Faster recovery
• Decreased risk of infection
• Reduced amount of blood loss and need for transfusion
• Less scarring
• Reduced hospitalization costs
    

Surgeon Benefits

The da Vinci Surgical System extends the surgeon’s capabilities through:

• Enhanced 3-D Visualization: Provides the surgeon with a true 3-dimensional view of the operating field. This direct and natural hand-eye instrument alignment is similar to open surgery with “all-around” vision and the ability to zoom in and out.
• Improved Dexterity: Provides the surgeon with instinctive operative controls that make complex MIS procedures feel more like open surgery than laparoscopic surgery.
• Greater Surgical Precision: Permits the surgeon to move instruments with such accuracy that the current definition of surgical precision is exceeded.
• Improved Access: Surgeons perform complex surgical maneuvers through 1-cm ports, eliminating the need for large, traumatic incisions.
• Increased Range of Motion: EndoWrist Instruments restore full range of motion and ability to rotate instruments more than 360 degrees through tiny incisions.
• Reproducibility: Enhances the surgeon’s ability to repetitively perform technically precise maneuvers such as endoscopic suturing and dissection.
• Training: Training for da Vinci Surgical System is easily accessible at Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center.

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