Robotic Surgery
Robotic-assisted surgery is a type of minimally invasive surgery. This technique can reduce the size and number of cuts or incisions that a surgeon needs to make versus traditional surgery.
Advanced robotic-assisted surgery systems can give doctors greater control and vision during surgery, allowing them to perform safe, less invasive and precise surgical procedures.
During robotic-assisted surgery, surgeons operate from a console equipped with two master controllers that maneuver robotic arms.
While minimally invasive surgery effectively reduces time and gives surgeons greater control, it isn't for everyone. Sometimes traditional open surgery provides surgeons better access to the area to be treated. Sometimes, a patient's age, physical condition and surgical history may necessitate open surgery. The benefits of minimally invasive robotics surgery may include:
- Less pain
- Small incisions
- Shorter hospital stay
- Quicker recovery time
- Less scaring
- Reduced blood loss
Abrazo Arrowhead Campus, Abrazo Central Campus, Abrazo Scottsdale Campus and Abrazo West Campus all offer robotic-assisted surgeries.
What are some of the surgeries offered with robotic assistance?
- General surgery
- Gynecology surgery
- Colorectal Surgery
- Urology Surgery
- Obstetrics Surgery
- Prostate surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
- Orthopedic surgeries
What are some of the robots that are used?
A robotic-arm assisted technology that is an innovative solution for many suffering from painful arthritis of the knee or hip. Using a 3D virtual model of your unique anatomy and a robotic arm, MAKO helps the surgeon plan and perform your joint replacement surgery. The MAKO allows for accurate placement of the hip implant which can reduce the likelihood of hip dislocation. It is more consistent in leg length. It can potentially decrease the need for a shoe lift. And it is a decreased risk of implant and bone abnormally running together.>
The MAKO is available at Abrazo Scottsdale Campus and Abrazo West Campus.
Your surgeon will determine if you are a good candidate for the MAKO procedure.
Features proprietary robotics-assisted technology that integrates handheld robotics with an intuitive CT-free registration and patient-specific planning process for knee replacements. The NAVIO software applications guide the surgeon in creating implant plans that localize components and balance soft-tissue and use handheld instrumentation uses multiple control modes to help the surgeon precisely prepare the bone for implantation.
The NAVIO is at Abrazo Arrowhead Campus and Abrazo Scottsdale Campus.
Your surgeon will determine if you are a good candidate for a NAVIO procedure.
Offers high-definition 3-D visualization and allows for enhanced dexterity and greater precisions and control for the surgeon. This design provides easier access to the patient and more flexibility for the surgeon. The endoscope can be used on any of the four arms of the robot and the da Vinci Xi can be docked at different angles. The da Vinci Xi is used for the following types of surgeries: colorectal, anorectic, obstetrics and gynecology, general and urology.
The da Vinci Xi is at Abrazo Arrowhead Campus, Abrazo Central Campus and Abrazo Scottsdale Campus and Abrazo West Campus.
Your surgeon will determine if you are a good candidate for the da Vinci Xi procedure.
A surgeon-controlled handheld robotics platform used for knee replacements, including both partial knee arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty. CORI offers new camera technology, which is over four times faster, offers more efficient cutting technology with twice the cutting volume and aims to result in a faster robotic surgical procedure. The system delivers accuracy for patients with implant placement, alignment and bone resection and helps reduce procedural variation.
The CORI Surgical System is used at Abrazo Scottsdale Campus.
Your surgeon will determine if you are a good candidate for the CORI Surgical System.
An intraoperative 2D/3D imaging system that is designed to meet the workflow demands of the surgical environment. It can be used in a variety of procedures such as spine, cranial and trauma orthopedics. The imaging system is a mobile X-ray system designed for adults and pediatric patients. The O-arm offers options for workflow efficiencies such as: In procedures where pre-op axial/coronal/sagittal slice data is necessary, it may be possible to use the O-arm system to provide the initial data set eliminating the need to send patients to be scanned in radiology. The O-arm allows for multiple surgical table options, inter-room mobility for concurrent cases and on-demand imaging, so there is no need to schedule in advance.
The O-arm system is used at Abrazo Arrowhead Campus, Abrazo Scottsdale Campus and Abrazo West Campus.
Mako Robotic Surgery
An Innovative Alternative to Total Hip Replacement
Abrazo Scottsdale Campus offers the Total Hip Arthroplasty procedure using a surgeon-controlled robotic arm system. This new level of reproducible surgical precision in hip surgery provides relief for people suffering with either non-inflammatory or inflammatory degenerative joint disease.
Mako Robotic Surgery Benefits
- Relief from hip pain and stiffness
- Accurate placement of the hip implant can reduce the likelihood of hip dislocation
- More consistency in leg length
- Potentially decreasing the need for a shoe lift
- Decreased risk of the implant and bone abnormally rubbing together – this may improve the life of the implant
You may be an ideal candidate for Mako Total Hip Arthroplasty
Only your surgeon can determine if you are a candidate for Mako Total Hip Replacement. A candidate for Mako Total Hip Replacement may experience the following:
- Pain while putting weight on the affected hip
- Limping to lessen the weight-bearing pressure on the affected hip
- Pain that may radiate to the groin, lower back or down the thigh to the knee
- Hip pain or stiffness during walking or other impact activities
- Failure to respond to non-surgical treatments or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication.
What is Mako Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA)?
Mako THA, is a procedure known as total hip replacement that is supported by the RIO® Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System. It is indicated for patients who suffer from non-inflammatory or inflammatory degenerative joint disease. RIO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System allows surgeons to achieve a new level of precision with the newest techniques in hip replacement surgery.
Total Hip Arthroplasty
- Accurate placement of the hip implant can reduce the likelihood of hip dislocation
- More consistency in leg length
- Potentially decreasing the need for a shoe lift
- Decreased risk of the implant and bone abnormally rubbing together – this may improve the life of the implant
All implants have a life expectancy that depends on several factors, including the patient’s weight, activity level, quality of bone and compliance with his/her physician’s orders. Proper implant alignment and accurate positioning during surgery are also very important factors that can improve the life expectancy of an implant. Through the use of the RIO robotic arm system, implants may be more optimally aligned and positioned.
Only your surgeon can determine if you are a candidate for Mako Total Hip Replacement. A candidate for Mako Total Hip Replacement may experience the following:
- Pain while putting weight on the affected hip
- Limping to lessen the weight-bearing pressure on the affected hip
- Pain that may radiate to the groin, lower back or down the thigh to the knee
- Hip pain or stiffness during walking or other impact activities
- Failure to respond to non-surgical treatments or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication.
da Vinci® Robotic Surgery
Surgery can be intimidating, but the good news is that you have more options today than ever before and one of those is da Vinci® robotic assisted surgery. This type of minimally invasive surgery helps your surgeon perform the most complex and delicate procedures through very small incisions with incredible precision.
We use da Vinci® because it works. With da Vinci®, surgeons use a control panel to perform the procedure with robotic arms, so da Vinci® is entirely human directed—it cannot be programmed or make decisions on its own. But we can use technology to its fullest advantage, providing patients with the most precise care possible.
Benefits of da Vinci® include:
- A faster return to normal daily activities
- Better clinical outcomes
- Shorter recovery time
- Reduced risk of infection
- Significantly less pain
- Less scarring
- Less blood loss
Mary Brown was the first patient to have surgery with the da Vinci XI surgical platform at Abrazo West Campus in September 2014. When asked about the procedure, she said
"My doctor told me there would be three little pencil-sized incisions and the robot goes in there and snip, snip, snip and you’re all done and you’ll heal faster, so I said, ‘Let’s do it. My mother had a hysterectomy several years ago and had a large incision and a lot of pain. I’m glad that I had a better option.”
Our da Vinci® Services
Cervical & Uterine Cancer
If you need hysterectomy or complex gynecologic surgery for cervical or uterine cancer, robot-assisted surgery with da Vinci® may be the most effective, least-invasive treatment available. Traditional open gynecologic surgery requires a large abdominal incision to access the uterus and surrounding anatomy, which generally requires a long and painful recovery process and can threaten surrounding organs and nerves.
Other da Vinci® Services
- Colorectal
- Esophageal
- Gallbladder single site
- Gynecology
- Laparoscopic total hysterectomy
- Hernia repair
- Oncology
- Prostate
- Thoracic (lung)
- Urology
- Uterine fibroid