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Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis acquired a da Vinci. No, the hospital has not purchased a painting. Rather, in the summer of 2003, Baptist Memphis became the first hospital in the Mid-South to own a new robotic surgery device called the da Vinci®.
The da Vinci Surgical System is powered by leading-edge robotic technology. It allows surgeons to perform major surgeries by making only small incisions. With the device, surgeons make four small incisions, inserting the robotic arms into the incisions to perform surgeries. The magnified, 3-D view the surgeon experiences enables him or her to perform precise surgery in complex procedures through small surgical incisions. The da Vinci can be used for prostate, open-heart, gynecologic, urologic and other surgical procedures. The system is the first totally “intuitive” laparoscopic surgical robot in existence. Photo Gallery To view an enlarged photo, point the cursor to one of the thumbnail photos. To give perspective on the capabilities of the da Vinci, the camera’s magnification of the surgical area is such that a suture, which is about the size of a piece of thread, appears the size of a rope. The camera allows surgeons to see more than they could if they were to do more invasive surgery. Because surgeons make only small incisions, patients benefit in a number of ways:
Using the da Vinci Surgical System, the surgeon operates while seated comfortably at a console viewing a 3-D image of the surgical field. The surgeon's fingers grasp the master controls below the display with hands and wrists naturally positioned relative to his or her eyes. The robot technology seamlessly translates the surgeon's hand, wrist and finger movements into precise, real-time movements of our surgical instruments inside the patient. Baptist Memphis surgeons have been specially trained to use the daVinci technology, and have met all the clinical and experience criteria to perform a robotic prostatectomy.  Top of Page |
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