3rd robot online at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

Posted December 11, 2013 2:06 pm

Submitted by Advocate Health System

Advocate Health System has invested in a third daVinci robot for Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge to keep up with growing patient volumes and demand. The hospital will perform more than 750 robotic surgeries in 2013.

Robotic surgery allows surgeons to perform delicate operations through a few small incisions. Only one other hospital in Illinois has three robots in operation. The recently purchased daVinci will be primarily used for single-site procedures. Those are procedures where surgeons operate through only one incision. Lutheran General was among the first hospitals to adopt the single site surgery.

Surgeons use the robot for general surgery, as well as ear, nose and throat, colorectal, urologic, thoracic and gynecologic surgeries. It is also used for more highly complex gynecologic/oncologic, liver, pancreatic, esophageal and stomach surgeries. The benefits include shorter hospital stays and recovery times, less blood loss and minimal scarring.

The robot performed its first surgery this week.

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