The region's only robotic-assisted surgical services
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The da Vinci Surgical System at Southcoast will be used primarily for complex urological surgeries, such as radical prostatectomies, with plans to expand to gynecological procedures. It will be located at Charlton Memorial Hospital, the Fall River site of Southcoast Hospitals Group and will be used by surgeons from throughout Southcoast Hospitals Group.
"The next generation of surgery is coming to the South Coast," said Keith A. Hovan, President & CEO of Southcoast Hospitals Group. "Southcoast Hospitals is the first health care organization to bring state-of-the-art robotic surgical technology to Southeastern Massachusetts, raising the bar for cancer surgery and offering our patients the fastest-growing prostate cancer surgery available."
Robotic-assisted surgery
Surgical robotics is a technology designed to give surgeons more precision and control during complex, minimally invasive procedures. It is an alternative to open surgery and laparoscopic surgery and can result in quicker recoveries for patients.
The da Vinci Surgical System "robot" is a state-of-the art medical device comprised on a surgeon console and patient-side robotic system with a high-resolution camera and microinstruments. The system is equipped with several "arms" that scale the movements of the surgeon's hands and arms down to micromovements for delicate precision. The surgeon "drives" the instruments using a high-resolution 3-D endoscope and image processing equipment, which provide the true-to-life, highly magnified 3-D images of the surgical field.
The entire surgery is performed through tiny incisions typical of minimally invasive surgery — and the surgeon is 100 percent in control at all times. Members of the Southcoast surgical staff will receive special training to assist the surgeons with this new technology.
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