Has anyone else here had the DaVinci?

Yep, I watched a video of my Surgeon using the DaVinci for the sleeve. Really cool. He said it's much more precise and provides more range and no fatigue to surgeon. Also the advantage of 3D view. He did the sleeve and both a heital and umbilical hernia repair on me. Went perfectly.

My bariatric surgeon is a robotics professor at my hospital... he did part of my surgery with robotics three years ago... don't know if it was DaVinci... They had me strapped to a board standing upright during surgery! That must have been a sight!

Whats a Di Vinci???

Wow! My surgeon uses the Da Vinci so I was just curious!

If your up to it, here is YouTube video of the Robotic surgery.

Edited January 27, 201412 yr by Recycled

it's the robotic machine they use ....thanks but I'm not real sure I can watch that video right now lol

Fascinating video. It is amazing what doctors can do with technology. Thanks for posting.

The DaVinci is the surgical robotic assisting device. While it's "cool," "hip," and also can give surgeons great visualization, etc., it is VERY costly and many doctors are still in their learning curve, or teaching others how to use it (at the OR cost to the patient). Doctors need to get a number of completed robot cases to be hospital-approved to use it and/or teach it, so some docs will wish to use it (and recommend it to you) to advance their completed case load count.

Any good surgeon can do these WLS procedures--especially something as simple at the VSG and LapBand--in less than an hour, most times, so all the time to set up the Robot is just extra, unnecessary time in the OR, and additional cost to the patient.

It's cool; neat; fun, but not always worth the expense to the patient. But...up to you/your doctor.

Edited January 27, 201412 yr by Dr-Patient

Yes I did!!!!!!!!! My scars are pretty tiny

Remember, "Laparoscopic [VSG, LapBand, RNY] ..." is how most of these surgeries are done. They afford access to the abdoment via small incisions.

"Robotic" surgery, using the DaVinci, is laparoscopic surgery done with the additional instrumentation of the robot.

Yes I did!