M6 REPORT ON THE OPERATING THEATRE AT THE TURIN CLINIC: "A LITTLE JEWEL OF TECHNOLOGY".
Posted on 06/08/2018Teams from M6 came to make a report on the use of the DA VINCI Xi robot by Doctor Olivier Dumonceau to operate on prostate cancer.
The report highlights the use of this latest-generation robot. It shows how Dr Dumonceau, just a few metres from the patient, remotely operates 4 articulated arms using a camera and joysticks.
Dr Dumonceau explains, "The use of joysticks makes the movements very precise and fine. This avoids the need for wide movements and enables extremely fine dissection, often in places that are difficult to access using other surgical techniques".
The journalist points out that training surgeons to perform robotically-assisted operations is extremely time-consuming (over 80 hours), but the benefits for the patient are undeniable: fewer scars, fewer complications.
The TURIN clinic was the first private hospital in the Paris region to use the DA VINCI XI robot. Robotic-assisted surgery offers the possibility of minimally invasive procedures for urological surgery, digestive surgery, obesity surgery and gynaecological surgery (treatment of endometriosis, for example).
