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What’s Happening in OR#10?

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One thing and one thing only happens in OR #10 at Greenville Memorial Hospital…robotic surgery. This room is dedicated to surgeries performed using the daVinci® robotic surgical system.

GHS entered into the daVinci arena over two years ago. In case you aren’t familiar with the daVinci, according to davinicsurgery.com “it is an effective, minimally invasive alternative to both open surgery and laparoscopy (a form of minimally invasive or minimal access surgery). Through the use of the da Vinci® Surgical System, surgeons are able to offer a minimally invasive option for complex surgical procedures.”

Today, complex conditions ranging from prostate cancer to uterine prolapse, fibroids and even thoracic disease can be treated minimally invasively with da Vinci Surgery. This approach uses a robotic surgical system that provides Greenville Hospital System surgeons better vision, more precision and control. It requires only a few small incisions, so you can get back to your life faster — without the usual recovery following major surgery.

Hear directly from an upstate patient about his experience with prostate cancer surgery. (Hey, if you’re a Clemson football fan, his name may sound a little familiar.)

Remember, there still is a very skilled surgeon (sometimes two) performing the surgery. Every GHS robotic surgeon, whether it is an urologist, gynecologist, or thoracic surgeon, completes a very aggressive training protocol before he or she performs a solo surgery. In addition, there is a dedicated robotics team in OR #10, assisting the patient and surgeon.

At GHS, there are currently eight surgeons trained. To learn more about them, click on the first link under Learn more at the end of this post.

One more thing, our CEO, Mike Riordan, always mentions our mission in meetings or when talking in the community. So, I’m going to follow his lead because I can’t write about the daVinci without thinking about how it is a great example of how we live our mission:

Heal compassionately. The healing process is shorter and incision is smaller. Just as important is that patients no longer have a reason to travel out of the county or state to have daVinci surgery.

Teach innovatively. GHS purchased what is called a dual console robot. It has two consoles. One for the surgeon, and one for another physician who is being trained.
Improve constantly. Now we are able to offer the right care the patient needs – open surgery, laproscopic or daVinic robotic surgery.

So, if you’re a candidate for the daVinci robotic surgical system, we’ll see you in one place and one place only … OR#10. (Until later this year when we are hoping to get another robot.)

Learn more:
http://www.ghssurgery.org/roboticsurgery.php
http://www.ghswomens.org/davinci-surgery-for-women.php

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