- Technology improves every year
to the benefit of our lives.
You pick out a smart phone and you compare
that to what phones looked
like over 25 years ago.
Robotics is that transition from
the 1992 coin operated phone
to the computer that each
of us have in our pocket.
Robotics is not the wave of
the future, robotics is here.
The robotics program
at UC Davis Health is a
unique opportunity for the
patients within our community.
- We really like to provide
all available options
to patients and so we
offer robotics surgery
versus traditional open surgery to try
to get them back to their lives faster
and decrease their complication rates.
- It'll allow us to get
to parts of the body
with smaller or fewer incisions,
which again holds promise
to expedite recovery
and make the patient's recovery better.
- [Bahareh] We're at the
bedside of the patient
and we put all the ports in the patient
as if we're gonna do laparoscopy
with tiny small incisions.
Then we attach the robotic system
to those ports and we actually are able
to unscrub and sit at a 3D console
right next to the patient in the room,
and perform the surgery
right alongside the patient,
with our head in the 3D console.
So we get 10 times magnification
and much better
visualization, so we can see
tiny little blood vessels
and dissect things
in a very precise manner.
- And that fingertip movement
allows the instruments
inside the patient's chest cavity to move
with levels of freedom
and degrees of freedom
that far exceed my own hands.
You are in a better
situation than patients were
25 years ago, because you yourself
have access to this technology.
- I see a huge benefit for our patients,
knowing that there is a machine
that makes things easier for the surgeons.
So this robotic system allows us
to plan ideal position of the screw
to stabilize the spine.
Once we have the plan, robot will take us
exactly where the incision has to be made
and through the channel
that robot arm provides,
we can deliver the screw
safely and accurately.
- [Bahareh] The patients can get back
to their lives faster,
decreased hospital stay,
decreased infection rates,
decreased blood loss.
We find that they take
far less pain medicine
than they would with
traditional operations.
- It's exciting to look at the innovations
that are coming from all of
our subsurgical specialties
that are designed for
the care of our patients.
- We're a great teaching institution
and we really believe
in the team approach.
All of our staff are highly
trained professionals,
so everyone in the room is
familiar with the system
and knows exactly what we're doing
day in and day out, and that enhances
our patients' safety, which is paramount
at UC Davis Health.
