Robotic Surgery at Westside Regional Medical Center

Westside Regional Medical Center utilizes the da Vinci® Surgical System, which provides surgeons with an alternative to both traditional open surgery and conventional laparoscopy, putting a surgeon's hands at the controls of a state-of-the-art robotic platform.

What Robotic Procedures Are Performed?

Westside Regional Medical Center uses Robotic Surgery in the treatment of the following areas:

• Urology
• Gynecology
• Cardiology

Additional Facts:

• Westside Regional Medical Center was one of the first hospitals in Broward County to perform robotic surgery. Dr. Paul Kahn was the first to use Westside’s daVinci robot by doing a radical prostatectomy on September 18, 2006.
• Cardiac surgeons from Peru, China, Japan, and the U.S. converged on Westside Regional Medical Center on Jan. 31, 2007 to witness a pioneering cardiac surgical technique. Cardiovascular surgeon Harold G. Roberts Jr. had performed similar operations about a dozen times before, utilizing the cutting-edge daVinci Robot Surgical System to cure atrial fibrillation. However, this was the first time that the procedure, known as robotic endoscopic Cox-cryomaze, was performed without the patient's heart first being arrested.
• The robot at Westside Regional Medical Center was named, Leo, after Leonardo DaVinci.

Learn More:

If you have questions about Robotic Surgery or for a FREE referral to a da Vinci® specialist, call 1-877-762-6801 or email us.

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