Robotic Surgery

da Vinci® ... Changing the Experience of Surgery at Suburban Hospital

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with a condition that may require surgery, you owe it to yourself to learn about all of your medical options, including the most effective, least invasive surgical treatments available.

The da Vinci® Surgical System provides surgeons with an alternative to both traditional open surgery and conventional laparoscopy, putting a surgeon's hands at the controls of a state-of-the-art robotic platform. The da Vinci System enables surgeons to perform even the most complex and delicate procedures through very small incisions with unmatched precision.

“The use of robotic technology takes surgical care into a new era,” explain Suburban Hospital urologists Dr. Juan Litvak and Dr. Bart Radolinski. “With versatile instrument movement and high-definition visualization of the operative site, it delivers the best aspects of both minimally invasive and traditional open techniques, allowing us to perform more complex, reconstructive procedures while minimizing the physical and emotional impact of surgery.”

For the patient, benefits may include:

• Significantly less pain
• Less blood loss
• Less scarring
• Shorter recovery time
• A faster return to normal daily activities
• And in many cases, better clinical outcomes

TO LEARN MORE | To watch a dynamic video overview of the robotic system click here. For a referral to a skilled robotic surgeon at Suburban Hospital, call 301.896.3939, or click on the following links for gynecology, urology, and urogynecology. To read the latest Ask the Doctor column, where surgeons share their insights about Suburban Hospital’s robotic surgical systems and other new technologies used in the fields of urology and gynecology, click here.