Rede D’Or creates the largest robotic park in Latin America

There are 23 robots and 22,000 surgeries performed between 2015 and 2022; method provides more control to doctors and better recovery of patients

With chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bullous emphysema occupying the entire length of his lungs, Sérgio Watson, 65, depended on oxygen support to survive. A simple conversation had already exhausted him. Today Sérgio manages to take walks with his dog along the beach.

What separates one life from the other is surgery with an innovative technique, devised by Dr. Tiago Machuca, which relocates the lungs into the rib cage and uses robotics to perform corrections on the organ and treat conditions that, if this operation did not exist , should be resolved with transplantation.

Machuca performed Sérgio’s surgery at the Rede D’Or, which today houses the largest robotic surgery park in Latin America. There are 23 devices in total, all of them fourth generation, the most modern available on the market. Only last year did the company invest

R$ 200 million for the purchase of devices of this type.

Between 2015 and 2022, approximately 22,000 robotic surgeries were performed at the Rede D’Or, including 5,000 at the Vila Nova Star hospital, in Itaim, São Paulo.

3D vision

Minimally invasive robotic surgery expands the possibilities for doctors and patients. Each robot has at least four mechanical arms, which can be equipped with different surgical instruments or cameras. The new generation has greater mobility and the possibility of 360° rotation, with images in 3D HD resolution.

The robot reproduces the commands of the surgeon in real time who, seated at a distance, controls his movements, with a three-dimensional view magnified up to ten times.

“It’s as if the doctor were inside the body, the senses are heightened, increasing dexterity,” says digestive surgeon Carlos Domene, medical coordinator of the robotic surgery program at Rede D’Or and president of the Brazilian Society minimally invasive surgery and robotics (Sobracil).

Additionally, this technique uses even thinner and smaller instruments than laparoscopy. “This causes less tissue damage and prevents accidental cutting of blood vessels,” says Domene. Mechanical arms also have a tremor control mechanism, which corrects movement if the surgeon involuntarily shakes his hands.

Another major evolution is that robotic surgery represents the entry of medical operations into the digital age, allowing software to add new functionality to equipment. In the future, artificial intelligence systems will be able to guide the doctor during a surgery in real time.

One of the areas that use robotic surgery the most is urology, particularly in prostate cancer surgery. “It provides more control and precision, resulting in less pain, less trauma, less bleeding, and better functional outcomes, with a better chance of recovery of sexual function and urinary control,” says urologist Rodrigo Frota.

In addition to digestive surgery and urology, other specialties have also benefited from robotics, such as gynecology, bariatric surgery and thyroid.

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