TERAMO. The Teramo Local Health Authority has recently made an important investment in the sector of new technologies by equipping the Teramo hospital with a daVinci Xi robotic platform, thanks to which it can perform minimally invasive surgical interventions using cutting-edge technology. In a note, the healthcare company provides an initial assessment of this activity: «From the beginning of the year to the end of May, 139 robotic surgery operations were performed at Mazzini, with a constant increase. The robot allows you to optimize and implement what have always been the benefits of traditional laparoscopic surgery (less surgical stress, faster recovery times, less postoperative pain and better aesthetic result) thanks to a 3D vision, better exposure of the operating field, movements of the instruments that reproduce those of the wrist and facilitation of sutures”.
General director Maurizio Di Giosia comments: «The use of the robot is part of our local health authority’s propensity for continuous innovation, with the adoption of new machinery and techniques. In this case, the use of the robot allows us to minimize trauma and reduce the patient’s hospital stay. Our final goal is to increasingly increase the quality of healthcare and therefore the benefits for the patient. It is an objective that we pursue with conviction now but also for the future. Furthermore, its use is also extended to surgeries in spoke hospitals in order to give different professionals and different operating units access to this method”, announces Di Giosia. In fact, in May, a first session of the general surgery of Sant’Omero took place and now we will continue with the surgeries of Atri and Giulianova.
There are four specialists that currently operate using the daVinci Xi: general surgery, thoracic surgery, urology and gynaecology. «The General Surgery of Teramo today performs with excellent results, in patients eligible for this type of surgical approach, all types of resection of the colon and rectum for both tumors and benign diseases; some stomach tumors and abdominal wall defects were also treated”, he explains Ettore Colangelo, director of the operational unit. Worth mentioning is the case of a primary tumor affecting the Spigelian lobe of the liver (one of the “difficult” segments), which was completely removed with a robotic technique and the patient was discharged in excellent clinical conditions after just four days of hospitalization. «This intervention», says the ASL, «of uncommon occurrence, represents the first case carried out in the region».
Minimally invasive robotic surgery is widely used in thoracic surgery, but Urology is the branch in which the daVinci Xi finds its greatest application. «It allows a technologically advanced and minimally invasive approach for the treatment of all neoplastic and functional urological pathologies with countless pre-intra-post-operative benefits, both for the patient and from a clinical point of view», point out the acting director of the Mazzini’s unit Guevar Maselli And Federico Narcisi, head of the urology and andrology unit of Atri. Noteworthy applications also in Gynecology. (red.te)
