Robotic Heart Surgery

Robotic assisted surgery represents the most advanced form of scope based surgery in 2005.Using systems like the daVinci and others, complex surgery an be performed through very small incisions and vastly improving recovery time and patient satisfaction. Rather than a human form, these robots are actually high tech microinstruments that are placed into the heart and mimic the complex and indetical movents of the surgeons hands, controlled remotely. See the diagram where the surgeon sits at a nearby console and sees an unque 3D image from within the heart. The tiny instruments placed through ports move identically to the human wrist with enhanced rage of motion.

While this may sound futuristic this technology has been in use for years and growing rapidly as word spreads about closed chest heart surgery. And while the physicians of CVSA did perform the first coronary artery bypass in the Midwest (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2002), and the first Mital valve repair in Wisconsin (Racine Journal Times, Duluth Paper), the fact is that with the advances this device offers it can perform a wide variety of minimally invasive procedures. For example: MVST (multivessel, no sternotomy bypass surgery), placement of pacing and defibrillating patches for biventricular pacemakers, myotomy for Achalasia, multiple types of tumors,and cancers, and endoscopic treatment of atrial fibrillation.

Today, the most technologically advanced, most precise, small incision endoscopic surgery is being done by the surgeons of CVSA. We have excellent results from years of experience using the only 3D system in our area. Our patients are enjoying smaller incisions, faster recovery, and more rapid return to a quality lifestyle.