Samsung Changwon Hospital Robot Surgery Center Achieves 2,000 Robot Surgery Cases

Rising as a Regional Robot Surgery Hub with Patient-Customized Advanced Surgery

The Robot Surgery Center at Sungkyunkwan University Samsung Changwon Hospital surpassed 2,000 robot surgeries as of the 16th. This achievement came about 10 months after reaching 1,500 surgeries in November 2022.

Sungkyunkwan University Samsung Changwon Hospital Robot Surgery Center recently surpassed 2,000 cases of robot-assisted surgery.

Samsung Changwon Hospital opened its Robot Surgery Center in December 2017. At that time, it introduced the most advanced robotic surgical system, the da Vinci Xi, joining the forefront of robot surgery in the Gyeongnam region.

The Robot Surgery Center at Samsung Changwon Hospital excels in surgical diseases such as breast cancer and thyroid cancer, as well as gynecological and urological diseases. In 2017, it was the first in the Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam (Bu-Ul-Gyeong) region to successfully perform robotic oral thyroid surgery. In 2019, it gained national attention in the domestic robot surgery field by achieving the first successful robotic partial mastectomy for breast cancer in Korea and by consecutively succeeding in total mastectomy and reconstruction surgeries performed simultaneously by the departments of surgery and plastic surgery.

To accelerate the development of the Robot Surgery Center, in December 2021, the hospital introduced the da Vinci SP (Single Port), the first single-port robotic surgical system in Busan and Gyeongnam. Since the introduction of the da Vinci SP, the center’s progress has accelerated. Within seven months, it surpassed 100 single-port robot surgeries, and by December of the same year, just five months later, it exceeded 200 cases. In October of this year, it surpassed a total of 400 cases, showing rapid growth in the field of high-difficulty robot surgeries.

Professor Oh Tae-hee of the Department of Urology said, “I am grateful to all the medical staff who have encouraged each other and demonstrated teamwork across various fields to provide better treatment to patients. We will continue to develop the center more systematically and spare no effort in providing multifaceted support to promote robot surgery.”

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