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St. Joe’s Completes 600th Robot-Assisted Surgery
WARREN, Ohio -- St. Joseph Health Center’s Robotic Surgical Services reports it recently achieved a landmark accomplishment: completion of its 600th robot-assisted surgery. Dr. Anthony DeSalvo performed the 600th robot-assisted surgery, a robot-assisted hysterectomy.
“Because patients who undergo minimally invasive robot-assisted procedures have less pain and recover faster, it makes sense for anyone who is a candidate to choose robot-assisted surgery,” Dr. DeSalvo says. “Most of my patients want to get back to their normal routines as fast as possible and robot-assisted surgery allows them to do that.”
The first robot-assisted surgery in Trumbull County was completed at St. Joseph Health Center April 13, 2012. Dr. DeSalvo performed that surgery, also a robot-assisted hysterectomy, on a 26-year-old mother of four.
Hysterectomies and oophorectomies (surgical removal of the ovaries) were the first robot-assisted procedures offered at St. Joe’s. Since then, the variety of robot-assisted procedures performed by surgeons at St. Joe’s have grown to include a wider variety of gynecologic procedures, general surgical procedures such as gall bladder removal, and surgical weight-loss procedures.
Humility of Mary Health Partners introduced robot-assisted surgery to the Mahoning Valley in 2007 and until last year, remained the only health care provider in nine contiguous counties –-- Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana, Ashtabula, Geauga and Portage counties in Ohio, and Mercer, Lawrence and Beaver counties in Pennsylvania -- to offer robot-assisted surgery, the world’s most advanced surgical treatment option.
Pictured: Dr. Anthony DeSalvo explains how robot-assisted surgery provides for less pain and quicker recovery following surgery.
SOURCE: Humility of Mary Health Partners
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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