Robotic-assistance offers a number of potential benefits over open-abdominal surgery such as a shorter hospital stay, a reduction in pain and scarring, a lower risk of infection, decreased blood loss, a faster recovery time, and ultimately a quicker return to normal activities.
Surgeons at the University of Illinois Medical Center use this state-of-the-art surgical system which was designed to help surgeons see vital anatomical structures more clearly and to perform a more precise operation. The benefit to the patient is that it expands the capabilities of surgeons to view the operating field three dimensionally and to precisely and naturally move the instruments during surgery thus providing improved patient outcomes.