Dr. Chris Magovern, Cardiac Surgeon, demonstrates the DaVinci Robot for surgery. (c) ABC News

Описание: Here's an interesting story from ABC News -- Dr. Chris Magovern, Cardiac Surgeon, demonstrates the use of the DaVinci Robot for surgery.

Salinas Valley Health has offered minimally invasive surgery options using the state-of-the-art da Vinci® Surgical System since October 2008. Others using the da Vinci® Surgical System include the prestigious Mayo Clinic, UCLA Health System, Stanford Medical Center, and many others.

http://www.svmh.com/services/robotics...

Salinas Valley Health is a Public District Medical Center which is part of the Salinas Valley Health. Salinas Valley Health is an integrated network of health care programs, services and facilities. At the core of the system is a 269-bed acute care medical center with several distinct specializations and programs, including the Harden Memorial Heart Program, Joint and Spine Centers of Excellence, a Comprehensive Cancer Resource Center, and a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Through affiliations and partnerships, Salinas Valley Memorial also meets community health care needs through the Cardiovascular Diagnostic Center in Monterey's Ryan Ranch, a network of urgent care and surgery centers, a sleep center, the region's only perinatal diagnostic center, and an Emergency Department that is staffed with physicians who are all board-certified in emergency medicine, seeing 44,000 patients per year.