Robotic-Assisted Surgery

Robotic-Assissted Surgery: Changing the Surgical Experience at Paul B. Hall Regional Medical Center

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with a condition that may require surgery, you owe it to yourself to learn about all of your medical options. Sometimes those options can include some less-invasive approaches utilizing robotic assistance.

Not all procedures can take advantage of this type of technology, and your surgeon would be the best person to help decide if it's even an option for you. A Robotic-Assisted Surgical System provides surgeons with an alternative to both traditional open surgery and conventional laparoscopy, putting a surgeon's hands at the controls of a state-of-the-art robotic platform. This minimally-invasive approach also enables surgeons to perform even the most complex and delicate procedures through very small incisions with unmatched precision.

For the patient, benefits may include:

• Smaller incisions - provide faster healing and little to no scarring
• Shortened hospital stay, or even outpatient surgery
• Minimal blood loss - less chance a blood transfusion will be needed during surgery 
• Less post-surgical pain - minimizes the length of time or need for pain medication
• Faster healing time - you will be back to your normal routine faster