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Kootenai Health Launches Robotic Surgery Programs

Kootenai Health, of Coeur d'Alene, says it has bought a $1.6 million robot and has started offering robotic surgeries for urology and gynecology patients at Kootenai Medical Center, which it open ates.

Hospital group says doc operated on wrong knee

State health officials were investigating how a surgeon operated on the wrong knee of a patient Friday at the Miriam Hospital, part of a medical network that was reprimanded and fined $50,000 last year for three mistaken surgeries at another of its facilities.

Interview: USC's George Bekey on Past and Future Robot Hands

Robotic hands have a hold on our imagination because they give us a tantalizing look at a fully automated future. At the same time, they're already helping us out with useful and difficult tasks, like making less invasive incisions during surgeries.

RI hospital group says doc operated on wrong knee

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State health officials were investigating how a surgeon operated on the wrong knee of a patient Friday at the Miriam Hospital, part of a medical network that was reprimanded and fined $50,000 last year for three mistaken surgeries at another of its facilities.

State's First Single Incision Robotic Kidney Removal Performed at Henry Ford Hospital

DETROIT, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in Michigan, a diseased kidney has been surgically removed at using highly sophisticated 3D robotics through a single incision. "We made several improvements in the technique that could allow us to perform this type of procedure routinely," says Craig Rogers, M.D., Henry Ford's director of robotic renal surgery. He performed the delicate operation last week using the da Vinci Surgical System, which has already been used in thousands of successful surgeries for complete and partial removal of diseased prostates. The kidney, damaged by four tumors, was extracted through an incision of about three inches near the patient's navel of a 50-year-old patient during a complex minimally invasive robotic procedure that lasted approximately 2.

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