Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth Performs Laparoscopic Vaginal Hysterectomy with the Da Vinci® HDT System
Contact: Mary Johnson, (817) 922-7088 or Sunny Drenik, (817) 922-7100Email: maryjohn@baylorhealth.edu or sunnydr@baylorhealth.edu
(FORT WORTH, Texas, October 30, 2007) - Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth performed a laparoscopic vaginal hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy (removal of lymph nodes) to treat uterine cancer using Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci® S HDT System. The da Vinci S HD Surgical System integrates 3D HD endoscopy and advanced robotic technology to virtually extend the surgeon's eyes and hands into the surgical field.
Dr. Hancock and nurses, anesthesiologists and technicians on staff at Baylor All Saints Medical Center performed the laparoscopic vaginal hysterectomy on October 25.
"The da Vinci S model provides us with more than twice the viewing resolution and more viewing area. Clarity and detail of tissue planes and anatomy, which is critical when performing delicate dissection or reconstructive procedures, are improved," says Kenneth Hancock, M.D., a gynecologist/oncologist on the medical staff at Baylor All Saints. "We are very pleased to have the opportunity to be able to operate with the da Vinci S model at Baylor All Saints. We've only started to explore all the capabilities of this system. Typically, patients can recover from the surgery in days rather than weeks."
The not-for-profit Baylor All Saints Medical Centers serve more than 100,000 people annually through two hospitals, numerous primary care physician centers and practices, a rehabilitation and fitness center, and a variety of medical specialties. Programs of excellence in cardiology, transplantation, neurosciences, oncology and women's services form the heart of the hospitals' services. All Saints joined Baylor Health Care System in January 2002. All Saints Health Foundation, a separately incorporated not-for-profit organization, raises and manages charitable funds to support Baylor All Saints Medical Centers. For fiscal year 2006, Baylor Health Care System reported $406 million in community benefit to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Physicians are members of the medical staff at one of Baylor Health Care System's subsidiary, community or affiliated medical centers and are neither employees nor agents of those medical centers, Baylor All Saints Medical Centers or Baylor Health Care System.