Hospiten Rambla University Hospital recently incorporated the Da Vinci Xi surgical system, which has made it possible to perform high-precision operations in specialties such as urology.
Dr. Victor Ramos, urologist at Hospiten Rambla University Hospital, says that "robotic surgery represents an advance on conventional laparoscopic surgical techniques. It is a platform that allows us to perform safer and more precise surgery.
It is a robot that is called a "slave, which means that it does exactly what the surgeon does, that is to say, it will not do more or less, but rather it repeats the movements made by the specialist," he points out.
"The advantage is that, for me, as a surgeon, it allows me to better visualize the structures. I have a magnified vision, a three-dimensional vision that conventional laparoscopy does not usually provide. It allows the structures and tissues to be magnified in the surgeon's vision," explains Dr. Ramos.
This system minimizes and can even eliminate the fine tremor that all professionals have when working, which also generates greater precision.
Likewise, the urologist affirms that "what this robotic surgery provides are advantages in terms of vision, reliability, less tremor and greater delicacy. It reduces the risk of bleeding or blood loss in the patient, which means that recovery is always simpler and easier. They have less postoperative pain and a faster recovery".
Dr. Sofía Vivancos, urologist at the Hospiten Rambla University Hospital, points out that "the real benefit is seen in prostate cancer, as it allows the preservation of continence, which is so important after this type of surgery and erectile dysfunction".
"It can be extrapolated to renal surgery, especially in small renal tumors, to try to perform a renal lumpectomy with less ischemia time, and also in very posterior renal tumors where laparoscopy makes access more difficult," Dr. Vivancos emphasizes.
Similarly, this system can be used in surgeries such as pyeloplasty, which is surgery performed on patients who are born or who have a stenosis or narrowing of the junction between the renal pelvis and the ureter.
And also in complex oncological surgeries, where there is collaboration with general surgeons or gynecologists".
Hospiten consolidates its commitment to robotic surgeries, which allow specialists to have the most avant-garde and precise systems. All this with the firm objective of offering patients better care and quality of life.
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