St. Joseph’s Hospital demonstrates robotic surgical system
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BUCKHANNON -- WVU Medicine St. Joseph's Hospital held an open house and demonstration of the da Vinci Robotic XI Surgical System on Aug. 8.
The system is the most advanced surgical system available. Its addition to St. Joseph's Hospital's surgical department makes the hospital only the second Critical Access Hospital (CAH) in the state able to offer this capability to its patients.
The system provides patients minimally-invasive surgery with a number of benefits including smaller incisions, shorter hospital stays and quicker recovery times. Procedures are performed with tiny instruments that move like a human hand but with a greater range of motion. A 3-D high-definition camera magnifies the surgical area to ten times what the human eye can see, giving the surgeon a crystal-clear view.
General surgeon Ross Knowles, DO, spoke to the group about the system's capabilities and attendees were able to view the console used by the surgeons to operate the system.
Foundation board members Lisa Cain and Dusty Zickefoose discussed the Foundation's surgical campaign in support of the robotic system.
For more information about supporting the Foundation's campaign, call 304-473-6819 or go online to www.stj.net.