University of Iowa Health Care added three new surgical robots, expanding robotic surgery capacity by an estimated one thousand operations per year and effectively doubling the current capacity.
UIHC began using the robots on June 2. The model, da Vinci 5, is a robotic surgical system that allows surgeons to perform minimally invasive procedures with high precision. The system sports tiny robotic instruments that follow a surgeon’s hand movements in real time.
Paired with a 3D simulated view of the incision area, surgeons are able to perform less invasive, smaller cuts than traditional open surgery…