Shannon Medical Center is accredited by the Surgical Review Corporation
(SRC) as a Center of Excellence in Robotic Surgery. This accreditation
recognizes Shannon's commitment and high standard of delivery of quality
patient care and safety.
Status as an accredited Robotic Center of Excellence means that Shannon
has met nationally and internationally recognized standards. Health care
facilities and surgeons seeking an SRC accreditation undergo an extensive
assessment and inspection process to ensure the applicant meets SRC’s
proven standards and requirements. These requirements include surgical
volumes, facility equipment, clinical pathways and standardized operating
procedures, an emphasis on patient education and continuous quality assessment.
Inspectors educate staff in the accredited departments on best practices
to help an organization improve its care and services.
As a patient, you can expect that this accreditation helps assure that
you will receive:
Safer procedures
Exceptional care before, during and after surgery
Fewer complications
Better overall surgical experience
The da Vinci Xi Surgical System, the latest da Vinci model, was designed
with the goal of further advancing the technology used in minimally invasive
surgery. Shannon's mission to provide exceptional healthcare to our family,
friends and neighbors encompasses staying up-to-date with the latest medical
technology, including advancements in surgical techniques. The system
can be used across a spectrum of minimally invasive surgical procedures.
How it works
The surgeon is 100 percent in control of the da Vinci Xi System, which
translates their hand movements into smaller, more precise movements of
tiny instruments inside the patient's body. Four small incisions, five
to ten millimeters, in size are made during the operation to accommodate
the instruments.
The system is laser guided and is placed in the precise location before
the operation begins. The surgeon controls the da Vinci System through
a console a few feet away from the operating table. The Xi System's immersive
3-D/HD vision system provides surgeons a highly-magnified view, ten times
that of the naked eye, virtually extending their eyes and hands into the patient.
Several of Shannon's surgeons are utilizing the da Vinci for gallbladder
removal, hernia repair, colectomy and OB-GYN surgeries. Robotic surgery
allows surgeons to have 3-D vision along with better digitalization, magnified
vision and wrist-articulated instruments. The instruments function like
a human wrist, with seven planes of movement. All of these features combined
help to minimize the risk to the patient.
Benefits
Surgeons benefit from enhanced vision and mechanics while using the system.
The patient benefits from smaller incisions, which lead to a shorter hospital
stay, quicker recovery, minimal scarring and less risk of complications.
Firefly allows surgeons to switch from standard to near-infrared vision
with the use of an injectable fluorescent dye. When Firefly is switched
on, the surgeon sees the areas with blood flow as green and the areas
without as gray, allowing him or her to evaluate major ductal areas, vessels
and blood flow in real-time. Additional advanced features of the da Vinci
Xi System include the ability for the surgeons to feed their patient's
imaging results into the console and Firefly Fluorescence Imaging.
The da Vinci Xi System is an expandable technology platform that is designed
to accommodate and seamlessly integrate a range of current technologies,
as well as future innovations, in areas such as imaging, advanced instruments
and anatomical access.
Robotic Surgery
