From this autumn, the surgeons at the Linz Ordensklinikum will have another artificial ‘colleague’ who can do even more.
Four arms, a precise ‘eye’ for cuts accurate to the millimeter and effortlessly highly concentrated for hours: the da Vinci robot has become indispensable in modern surgery.
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“Of course the system never works alone,” emphasizes Matthias Biebl, primary at the Ordensklinikum. As a surgeon you sit at a console and in the sense of an outstretched arm: “I can perform procedures very precisely and patient-friendly”, he describes his experiences.
Biebl is one of seven doctors who have operated on a Da Vinci since 2008. To date, around 3,600 robot-controlled prostate surgeries have been performed in the Ordensklinikum.
Software and hardware updates
The ‘robot team’ is now being strengthened, because a completely new Da Vinci will be put into use in the autumn. Costs 2.1 million euros, which the state of Upper Austria will take over.
“We’re getting a new version of the system that will make it even easier to perform surgeries in different parts of the body because the arms are extremely flexible,” Biebl says. The robot will mainly be used in oncology, but also in ENT and gynaecology.
So far there are 17 Da Vinci robots in Austria, four of which work in Upper Austria.
Source: Krone
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