Da Vinci Robotic Surgery: Do the Advantages Outweigh the Risks?
While there have been some serious reports of complications (nerve damage, device malfunction, bleeding, breathing problems) associated with the Da Vinci robotic surgery, most of them seem to link back to a doctor’s lack of experience with robotic surgeries.
A doctor in Plano, Texas, started using robotic surgery for heart (cardiothoracic) procedures and recently hit 1,000 surgeries. He says that, in the beginning, the procedures were a little more rocky: “In our first 300 cases we had to open 11 people, about 3 percent. Of those, only two were converted due to bleeding. In our next 300, it was two total.”
As doctors have more experience, many of the complications become extremely rare. So, finding a doctor that has as much experience and training as possible is essential to a successful procedure.
The advantages to doing a da Vinci robotic surgery include:
- A faster recovery
- A smaller incision and scar
- Less bleeding
- Less pain
- Magnified view for better precision
- Better outcomes
To find out more about Da Vinci surgeries and specifically robotic hysterectomies, read here.
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