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Minimally Invasive and Robot-Assisted Surgery
The University of Kansas Health System offers the most advanced diagnostic and treatment options available today. Our surgeons have been performing and refining minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery since the early 1980s and were among the first members of the international Minimally Invasive Robotic Association.
Using the latest robotic technology, we perform minimally invasive procedures more efficiently and precisely than ever before. This can minimize the pain and risk of traditional surgery and allows faster recovery and improved clinical outcomes.
Minimally invasive surgery overview
Traditional surgery usually requires invasive procedures through large incisions, followed by a longer stay in the hospital. Minimally invasive surgery can offer greater precision and control than traditional open surgery, with an incision of less than 1 inch. This minimizes the pain and risk of traditional surgery and allows faster recovery and improved clinical outcomes. Using the latest technology, our surgeons can perform minimally invasive procedures more efficiently than ever before.
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Why choose us for minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery
Our doctors and surgeons constantly develop and apply new minimally invasive procedures and robot-assisted surgeries that can benefit you. We have been performing and refining minimally invasive surgical options since the early 1980s. Many of these techniques are reducing the need for certain types of traditional surgery for some people.
Our surgeons have performed thousands of endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP) procedures to diagnose and treat diseases of the liver, gallbladder and pancreas. Very few surgeons in the country have been trained to perform these advanced techniques.
Other common surgeries, like hernia repair or appendectomies, can be completed with minimally invasive or robotic techniques.
I think that's what The University of Kansas Health System and our program brings to the table, which is our surgeons are not only good robotic surgeons, excellent robotic surgeons, experienced robotic surgeons, which is important. I think the most important thing is that there are experts in their field, whether that's oncology, whether that's, you know, urogynecology, whatever it is, they're experts within the field first, and then they're excellent robotic surgeons. And I think even though we're talking about robotic surgery, I think that's almost secondary, in a way, because being the expert in the field first is important.
The other thing you get here, this is shown by data over and over again. When you come to high-volume centers like ours, your outcomes are going to be better. There's no question about it. When you come to a center where your teams are in tune with what you do. So yes, the patient meets me, but his treatment team is 10 other people. There's a surgical tech, a nurse, Erin, the anesthesiologist. We're not there for the first time doing this or the 100th time doing it. We're doing it for the 1000th time, or the 2000th time, right? So I think that amount, that idea of experience, repetition, adjustments, all of those things become really important, the patient outcome, and we have good data that shows that that's important. So I think that's what you're getting in us in this high-volume center with experienced robotic surgeons who are experts in their field.
So when you come and see the experts, first, that's the brand you get, because everything that follows is going to be reliable, it's going to be unbreakable, it's going to be controllable, and you'll get all that precision medicine combined into that process.