Precision surgery with smaller incisions, less pain and quicker healing
Advanced robotic technology now allows surgeons to perform traditionally “open” surgeries through tiny incisions. In addition, robotic-assisted surgery takes the concept of minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery and improves on that technique. Instead of using handheld, restrictive instruments, surgeons use robotic technology that mimics their movement, while providing more precision and greater range.
Many surgical procedures performed today using standard open or laparoscopic techniques may be performed more quickly, easily and safely through robotic-assisted surgery. Patients experience less pain and a faster recovery.
Blending surgeon skill with state-of-the-art computer accuracy
The SSM Robotic Surgery Institute at DePaul Health Center is powered by the latest da Vinci Surgical System, the state-of-the-art in robotic technology. The da Vinci System enables our surgeons to perform such conventional, but complex, surgeries as hysterectomy, prostatectomy, mitral valve repair, and kidney procedures through tiny incisions and with greater accuracy than ever before.
Performing traditional surgeries in such an unconventional, minimally invasive way benefits both the patient and surgeon. The robotic system translates the surgeon’s hand motions into precise movements of micro-instruments within the surgical site. The surgeon is naturally and comfortably seated at a console a few feet away from the patient. The system robotically replicates the surgeon’s hand movements in real-time, giving greater range of motion through advanced reticulated instrumentation.
da Vinci is simply remarkable
“The potential payoffs (of the da Vinci Surgical System) are impressive: Smaller incisions, less pain, fewer infections and other complications, shorter hospital stays, faster recovery, even improved odds that the outcome of the procedure will be a success.”
- U.S. News and World Report