Saint Mary's Health Care Robotics
Why Robotics?

Advantages/Benefits

da Vinci Surgery uses small incisions, which offers numerous potential benefits. Some of the major benefits experienced by patients may include:

  • a shorter hospital stay
  • less pain
  • less risk of infection
  • less blood loss
  • less scarring
  • faster recovery
  • quicker return to normal daily activities.

None of these benefits can be guaranteed, as surgery is both patient- and procedure-specific.

Surgeon Benefits

Some of the major benefits experienced by surgeons using the da Vinci® Surgical System over traditional approaches have been:

 
  • greater surgical precision
  • increased range of motion
  • improved dexterity
  • enhanced visualization
  • improved access