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The Da Vinci robot, a device developed by the American company Intuitive Surgical, which allows surgeries to be performed with the highest available technology, has currently performed more than 1500 operations in the province of Misiones and is the only robot of this type within a public and free health system in the country.
With this technology, urological and gynecological surgeries are performed from the first moment; Then the general ones such as bariatric were incorporated.
This technology was designed to facilitate complex surgeries using a minimally invasive approach. This factor allows overcoming the limitations of open and laparoscopic surgery, enhancing in terms of vision, precision and control the skills of the surgeon.
Misiones is strongly committed to the continuous training of its doctors and those who operate the robot are local doctors.
The da Vinci robot is not autonomous; It requires in all cases the intervention and decision-making of a professional who acts as a human operator for all actions. Misiones is strongly committed to the continuous training of its doctors and those who operate the robot are local doctors, avoiding the lack of availability, who were trained for this technology.
In addition to the human team, the system is composed of three parts: the vision car, is the brain of the robot that has a screen where the images of the cavity are observed; the patient cart with four arms, they are installed in the patient and by means of 3 to 5 mm forceps plus a camera allows to have an amplified 3D vision of the cavity allowing an almost absolute precision.
The da Vinci robot is not autonomous; It requires in all cases the intervention and decision-making of a professional who acts as a human operator for all actions.
Finally, the surgeon's console, where professional surgeons operate a joystick with multiple sensors, a kind of gloves that allow health professionals to work remotely, they could even do it from another country. "The tweezers respond to the movement of our hands," explained the head of the service, David Rywaka.
Professional surgeons operate a joystick with multiple sensors.
Each intervention of this machine with state-of-the-art technology entails a cost of between 13 thousand and 15 thousand dollars. When presenting the 2023 Budget Bill, the legislator and president of the commission where the initiative was discussed, Lucas Romero Spinelli stressed in the House of Representatives that the law prioritizes efforts in social investment, which reach "67% of the provincial budget, destined to take care of the health of missionaries in prevention, in attention, and assistance and containment to the most vulnerable sectors. We have a strong health system, the product of a careful State policy on health matters, which consolidates it as one of the best in Argentina."
