A unique two-day robotic surgery training is underway at the St. Panteleimon Hospital of the First Medical Association of Lviv.
With fellow surgeons from different cities of Ukraine, doctors share their knowledge and experience of operations with the help of the Da Vinci robot.
Yesterday, the hospital operated on two patients with the help of a robot: a 15-year-old boy with a spleen cyst and a 68-year-old patient with a bilateral inguinal hernia. The operations were successful. The training participants observed and discussed surgical tactics, and today they will be able to practice and play Da Vinci on their own.
Doctors from Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Rivne, Khmelnytsk, Uzhhorod and other cities of Ukraine came to the training.
By the way, the Da Vinci robotic surgeon has been used in the First Medical Association of Lviv for more than two years – to perform operations on both children and adults. The youngest operated on patient was only 11 months old, and the oldest was 75 years old.