Surgeons at an Oklahoma hospital are calling their latest technology that’s been added to their system a dynamic duo in the operating room. St. Anthony Hospital is the only hospital in the Oklahoma City metro that uses this robotic technology for surgeries. >> Download the KOCO 5 App | Subscribe to KOCO 5’s YouTube channelThink of it like a video game. The surgeon looks through the viewfinder and uses controls while the patient is under. They said it’s a quicker and faster recovery process. “This is the latest and greatest,” said Dr. Jared Lepley, the general surgeon at St. Anthony Hospital. “It allows us to do big surgeries through small incisions.” The hospital unveiled its newest robotic machine called the “Da Vinci 5” surgical system. “These controls allow my hands to move the instruments as if they were my own,” saidMohammed Ramadan, MD, SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital Surgery Department chair. The “Da Vinci 5” is the latest robotic technology that helps doctors perform surgical procedures for urology, gynecology and general surgeries. It’s the fifth robotics system at St. Anthony Hospital. “I look in the headset here, which has a 3-D view of the operative field, so inside the patient,” Ramadan said. And then surgeons use the system’s controls. “The robot can do motions that I physically can’t do, like with my hands. I can’t make such tiny motions sometimes, but controlling the robot I can,” Lepley said. >> Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here.What does that mean for patients undergoing surgery? “That allows faster recovery, shorter hospital times for patients, and getting back to regular life taking care of families and doing their work,” Ramadan said. They’re calling the new technology a true game changer. “We can do these surgeries in a lot of different ways,” Ramadan said. “It’s not a question of can we do a successful operation. The question now is how can we minimize that to do a successful operation and get people back to what they need to do.”
Surgeons at an Oklahoma hospital are calling their latest technology that’s been added to their system a dynamic duo in the operating room.
St. Anthony Hospital is the only hospital in the Oklahoma City metro that uses this robotic technology for surgeries.
>> Download the KOCO 5 App | Subscribe to KOCO 5’s YouTube channel
Think of it like a video game. The surgeon looks through the viewfinder and uses controls while the patient is under. They said it’s a quicker and faster recovery process.
“This is the latest and greatest,” said Dr. Jared Lepley, the general surgeon at St. Anthony Hospital. “It allows us to do big surgeries through small incisions.”
The hospital unveiled its newest robotic machine called the “Da Vinci 5” surgical system.
“These controls allow my hands to move the instruments as if they were my own,” said
Mohammed Ramadan, MD, SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital Surgery Department chair.
The “Da Vinci 5” is the latest robotic technology that helps doctors perform surgical procedures for urology, gynecology and general surgeries. It’s the fifth robotics system at St. Anthony Hospital.
“I look in the headset here, which has a 3-D view of the operative field, so inside the patient,” Ramadan said.
And then surgeons use the system’s controls.
“The robot can do motions that I physically can’t do, like with my hands. I can’t make such tiny motions sometimes, but controlling the robot I can,” Lepley said.
>> Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here.
What does that mean for patients undergoing surgery?
“That allows faster recovery, shorter hospital times for patients, and getting back to regular life taking care of families and doing their work,” Ramadan said.
They’re calling the new technology a true game changer.
“We can do these surgeries in a lot of different ways,” Ramadan said. “It’s not a question of can we do a successful operation. The question now is how can we minimize that to do a successful operation and get people back to what they need to do.”