Da Vinci Surgical Robot International Training Center of an annual capacity of 500 people is put into use at Changhai Hospital in Shanghai. This saves the trouble of traveling overseas for training and will promote the application of robotic surgery and the training of physicians.
Since the introduction of the first Da Vinci robotic surgery system in 2006, more than 40,000 surgeries of various types have been conducted by robots in China in departments including urology, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, thoracic surgery, cardiac surgery, pediatric surgery and thyroid surgery. There are 62 systems in China each of which perform 5.9 surgeries every week. More potential can be tapped into to meet the need of several hundreds of surgeries every day in most top-tier hospitals in the country.
“Robotic surgery is among the most advanced surgery technologies so far and cannot be used before systematic training and strict accreditation. In the past, we could only receive training outside China over a long period of time at a huge cost and with much difficulty,” said Zhang Congxin, president of Changhai Hospital. This first robotic surgery training center in China is expected to provide training for more than 500 physicians each year.
The imaging technology of the Da Vinci surgical robot provides more accurate and three-dimension image that can be enlarged ten times and can show behind the tissues. The robotic wrist has seven levels of flexibility and can prevent shaking, so it is more stable in separating, cutting tissues or other body parts in deep and narrow spaces. This can reduce the harm to vessels and nerves and the blooding during surgery and reduce the chances of postoperative complications and improve the health of the patient after surgery.
