Minimally invasive robotic surgery
Robotic surgery is a technology that allows your surgeon to perform procedures with unprecedented accuracy, providing you a shorter recovery. The surgeons at St. Rose Dominican's San Martin and Siena hospitals use the da Vinci® Xi Surgical System, the most widely used robotic surgery system.
Robot-Assisted Surgery provides the surgeon with better optics and the instruments offer a greater range of motion to navigate hard-to-reach areas. This results in less manipulation of healthy surrounding tissue, which leads to less post-operative pain and less chance of blood loss.
Helps decrease the patient’s out-of-pocket costs. The length of your stay will depend on the procedure you had performed, your overall health, and if you experience any complications.
Feel better and get back on your feet sooner. Compared to traditional open surgery, infection rates and/or complications from robotic surgery are typically lower.
With robot-assisted surgery, you can look forward to feeling better and getting back on your feet sooner. Robotic surgery, a type of minimally invasive surgery, is more precise and results in shorter recovery periods. The robotic team at Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican performs this surgery to treat many conditions. Talk to your doctor to find out if you are a candidate.
As with any surgery, these benefits cannot be guaranteed, as surgery is unique to each patient and procedure. The da Vinci Surgical System is considered safe and effective, but may not be appropriate for everyone. Always talk to your doctor about all treatment options, as well as the associated benefits and risks.
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Robotic surgery is a technology that allows your surgeon to perform procedures with unprecedented accuracy, providing you a shorter recovery. The surgeons at St. Rose Dominican's San Martin and Siena hospitals use the da Vinci® Xi Surgical System, the most widely used robotic surgery system.
Robotic surgeons and surgical teams undergo extensive training in order to use the da Vinci® system.
Our skilled surgical teams at the San Martin and Siena Campuses perform thousands of procedures each year, from routine to complex.
Gynecologic surgery is used to treat problems of the female reproductive system.
Thoracic surgery focuses on surgery of organs of the chest.
Urology surgery is performed to treat issues of the urinary tract and male reproductive organs.
Bariatric surgery reduces the amount of food the stomach holds, resulting in significant weight loss results.
Colorectal surgery is performed to treat conditions that affect the lower digestive tract such as the small bowel, colon, rectum and anus.
The FDA has cleared Robot Assisted Surgical devices for use by trained physicians in an operating room environment for laparoscopic surgical procedures in general surgery, cardiac, colorectal, gynecologic, head and neck, thoracic and urologic surgical procedures.
The da Vinci surgical system gives your surgeon an advanced set of instruments to use in performing robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery. The term “robotic” often misleads people. Robots don’t perform surgery. Your surgeon performs surgery with da Vinci by using instruments that he or she guides via a console.
Yes, the surgeon performing the procedure is located at a console in the operating room, in close proximity to the patient and surgical support staff. The surgeon is in complete control of the robot at all times.
Both Laparoscopic and Robotic surgery uses tiny incisions to insert surgical equipment and a camera for viewing.
Laparoscopic surgery the surgeon insert tiny cameras, lights, and surgical instruments through these incisions. The camera and lights allow doctors to see the inside of the body, while viewing magnified images through the laparoscope (camera) on a screen, so they can manipulate the surgical instruments to perform the surgery.
Robotic surgery is performed by manipulating the instruments from a console. The instruments have a greater level of precision and range of motion, allowing your surgeon to access hard-to-reach places.
The surgeon console provides your surgeon with crystal-clear 3D high-definition views. The da Vinci system also has built-in tremor-filtration technology, which helps your surgeon move each instrument with smooth precision.
Yes, Robotic Surgery improves outcomes by lowering the risk of infections and decreasing your length of stay in the hospital.
Compared to open surgery, there is less pain with Robotic Surgery because the surgeon makes small incisions and the instruments allows them to access hard-to-reach areas without disturbing the surrounding healthy tissue. Less pain also means the patient needs less pain medications, which may cause side effects like nausea, constipation, drowsiness and many others.
The Siena Campus achieved accreditation as a Center of Excellence in Robotic Surgery, recognized for providing the highest quality of care and patient safety by Surgical Review Corporation, an independent, not-for-profit, organization that administers best-in-class accreditation programs for medical facilities and professionals. The hospital is the first in Nevada to achieve this accreditation.
The San Martin Campus achieved accreditation as a Center of Excellence in Robotic Surgery, recognized for providing the highest quality of care and patient safety by Surgical Review Corporation, an independent, not-for-profit, organization that administers best-in-class accreditation programs for medical facilities and professionals.
Talk to your doctor to find out if you are a candidate. Find a St. Rose doctor who performs robotic surgical procedures or call us at (855) 336-0702.
