The Indiana Regional Medical Center is celebrating a medical milestone…the 1,000th robotic surgery performed at the hospital, a feat accomplished in less than two-and-a-half years.
Minimally-invasive procedures performed with IRMC’s state-of-the-art da Vinci Xi robot, performed in the hospital’s new operating rooms, enable surgeons to have complete depth perception with 3-D visualization and “fully-wristed” hand action, which allows extremely delicate maneuvering in the tiniest spaces. That gives robotic surgery a decided advantage over laparascopic procedures, which have much more restricted dexterity. The result is more precise surgery, faster recovery time, and shorter hospital stays.
Dr. Dan Clark is the director of IRMC’s Center for Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery. He actually came to Indiana to teach the surgeons and their teams how to do the procedures, but having seen the potential for robotic surgery here, he accepted an offer to take charge.
Clark says it was Dr. Andrew Billion for getting IRMC started with robotic surgery.
IRMC’s robotic surgery team includes Dr. Clark and Dr. Sandor Mecs, who are both nationally-recognized proctors and surgeons; general surgeons Dr’s. Nazneen Billimoria, Andrew Billon, and Muralidhar Gudetti; and certified gynecological surgeon Dr. Quiniece Hurdle.
