Robotic Surgery
You may have heard the term "robotic surgery," but unless you're a medical professional, odds are you don't know much about the benefits it can deliver.
Below are just a few of the procedures that Piedmont surgeons in Athens, Atlanta, Fayetteville, and Newnan, Georgia use robotic tools to treat - but there are many more procedures where the precision of a robot may make all the difference in recovery time. If you are evaluating surgical options for a medical issue, be sure to ask your doctor if robot-assisted surgery is an option for you.
Robotic surgery - just another way Piedmont physicians are embracing leading-edge technologies to provide you with better care.
With robotic surgery – or “robot-assisted surgery” – surgeons use specialized robotic surgical tools to operate more quickly, efficiently and with greater precision than ever before. Instead of working by hand – which typically requires larger incisions - surgeons can manipulate ultra-precise robotic arms to enter a body through small, dime-sized incisions.
The benefits associated with robotic surgery include:
- Shorter hospital stay
- Faster recovery time
- Less risk of infection
- Less pain and scarring
- Diminished blood loss
- Less risk of infection
Since 2010, Piedmont surgeons have been using robotic surgery to treat a number of conditions such as prostate cancer and other urological conditions in men, and a number of gynecological conditions in women including endometriosis, uterine fibroids, and hyperplasia. In 2011 Piedmont Transplant started offering donor nephrectomy to our patients – the first and only robotic transplant program in the Southeast.
Common Robotic Procedures:
- Bariatric surgery
- Cholecystectomy
- Donor nephrectomy
- Esophagectomy
- Esophagastrectomy
- Gynecologic surgeries
- Hernia repair
- Hysterectomy
- Kidney surgery
- Liver surgery
- Lymphocele drainage
- Peritoneal window
- Prostatectomy
- Removal of polycystic kidneys
- Thoracic surgeries
- Urological surgeries