Kaohsiung hospital exceeds 5,000 da Vinci surgeries, adds second single-port system

Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital announced on August 18 that its cumulative number of robotic-assisted surgeries using the da Vinci system has officially exceeded 5,000 cases. To further enhance its capabilities in precision minimally invasive surgery, the hospital has invested in a second advanced "single-port da Vinci surgical system" (da Vinci SP).

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The implementation plan is an early blueprint of how we will respond to the 63 recommendations accepted in full, 19 in part and six noted.

Traditional minimally invasive surgery offers smaller incisions compared to open procedures. However, operating in narrow, deep, or complex anatomical spaces can still challenge surgeons. The da Vinci system provides a high-resolution 3D stereoscopic view and instruments with dexterity mimicking the human wrist, enabling surgeons to perform delicate dissections, resections, and suturing with enhanced precision and reduced tremor.

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The hospital highlighted that behind the 5,000 surgeries are individual patient recovery stories. One such case involved a woman in her 50s, with no smoking history or family history of lung cancer, who was diagnosed with a 2cm ground-glass opacity in her lung. After a thorough evaluation, she underwent a single-port da Vinci lung lobectomy. The procedure, performed through a single incision, successfully removed the early-stage lung adenocarcinoma. She experienced minimal post-operative pain, recovered well, and was discharged within a week.

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And then, we are curtailing the times that that can occur to 10am to 10pm in the evening, which just makes sense.

Hospital officials stated that the da Vinci system is now widely used across multiple specialties, including urology, gynecology, general surgery, colorectal surgery, otolaryngology, and thoracic surgery. The introduction of the second single-port system will increase scheduling flexibility and interdisciplinary utilization, allowing more eligible patients to benefit from single-port minimally invasive surgery.

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It strikes me as being a reasonable proposition that the Royal Commission has made, and we're willing to accommodate it given the challenge that we're trying to tackle here.