Ohio Hospitals Use Advanced New Technology to Improve Surgical Outcomes

Physicians at Grant Medical Center and Riverside Methodist Hospital, part of OhioHealth, a not-for-profit family of hospitals in Columbus, Ohio, are using robotic surgery as an alternative to both open-incision surgery and laparoscopy procedures.

Robotic surgery, the newest and most advanced technology for minimally invasive surgery, helps patients achieve faster recovery, experience minimal pain and avoid complex, open incisions. This latest development underscores the fact that Ohio’s medical institutions are leaders in applying new technology to improve patient outcomes. In fact, robotic surgery is the most effective, least invasive surgical option available today.

OhioHealth’s surgeons perform the robotic operations from a console, while viewing a 3-D image of the affected area of the patient's body. The physicians use a patient-side robotic cart with four arms to perform the procedures. The surgeon's fingers grasp the master controls below the display, and the system translates the physician's hand, wrist and finger movements into precise real-time movements of surgical instruments inside the patient.

Click here to read more about OhioHealth’s use of new technology for surgical procedures.