Archbold first in region to acquire new surgical system
Published 3:35 pm Thursday, April 13, 2017
- While seated at the physician console, the surgeon has an immersive, highly magnified 3D-HD view of the surgical field. The surgeon operates hand controls from the console that areseamlessly translated to the robotic arms and surgical instruments (pictured far left) for precise instrument control during a procedure.
THOMASVILLE — Archbold Memorial Hospital recently became the first hospital in the region to acquire the da Vinci Xi Surgical System, Intuitive Surgical’s latest robotic surgery technology to hit the market.
Archbold launched its advanced robotic surgery program in 2011 for gynecology, urology, thoracic and general surgeries. The new daVinci XI will be one of two surgical robotic systems that Archbold surgeons can use for robot-assisted surgery.
Like its predecessors, daVinci Xi enables access to the abdomen or chest through microscopic surgical incisions. The da Vinci Xi System expands upon core da Vinci System features, including wristed instruments, 3D-HD visualization, intuitive motion, and an ergonomic design that is very beneficial for the surgeon.
As with all da Vinci Surgical Systems, the surgeon is 100 percent in control of the robotic-assisted da Vinci System, which translates his/her hand movements into smaller, more precise movements of tiny instruments inside the patient’s body.
“With the Xi System, there is an immersive 3D-HD vision system that provides surgeons a highly-magnified view of the patient’s anatomy,” said Archbold general surgeon Ed Hall, MD. “A new simpler, more compact endoscope helps with improved vision definition and clarity, and a new overhead instrument boom provides us anatomical access from virtually any position.”
Smaller, thinner robotic arms with newly-designed joints offer physicians a greater range of motion than ever before, and longer instrument shafts give surgeons greater operative reach.
“For the past six years, robotic surgery has been used across a spectrum of minimally invasive surgical procedures at Archbold,” said Dr. Hall. “Patients have had great outcomes and short recovery times with our robotic urology and gynecology procedures and single incision gallbladder surgeries that allow for no visible scarring. We’ve revolutionized surgical treatment for lung cancer, and have helped many patients that before robotic surgery would have been considered inoperable cases.
“The new system will help to advance our robotics program at Archbold even further, which translates into even better surgical treatment options for patients in our region,” Dr. Hall continued. “We’re proud to be the first in our region to offer this new technology for our patients.”
