KUALA LUMPUR: After the success of the da Vinci Si Surgical system that was launched in 2016, Sunway Medical Centre now introduces the 4th Generation Surgical System, the da Vinci Xi that is capable of assisting surgeons to make complex surgeries simpler.
Sunway Medical's Minimally Invasive Surgery Services and Robotic Surgery's general manager, Helen Ng Hoy Loon, said the latest smart hospital technology has successfully administered over one thousand robot-assisted surgeries across gynaecology, urology, and general surgery fields.
"The aim is to make surgeries as minimally invasive as possible. The key method is 'less is more', less traumatic, less cut, less scar, less infection, less blood loss, less pain, and less hospital stay. Today, the surgical system could overcome the drawback of conventional laparoscopic surgery with enhanced 3D HD vision, endowrist instrumentation, and seamless movement," she said.
With advanced surgical technology, da Vinci Xi simplifies surgeries by allowing Sunway Medical Centre's surgeons to have an extended range of motion and substantially improved vision.
This also allows them to conduct robot-assisted procedures with increased precision and less operative pain.
Sunway Medical Centre's consultant urologist, Dr Badrulhisham Bahadzor, said that prior to robotic surgeries, surgeons started with laparoscopy.
"Laparoscopy requires one to control instruments directly by our own hands. But if you switch that to a robotic instrument, it can do more complicated manoeuvres that mimic your hand movements, which is called a wristed movement. With da Vinci Xi's surgical system, the instruments can be inserted into a patient via a small insertion and it lets surgeons see things in 3D while preserving the depth of insertion," he said.
Meanwhile, Dr Tan Ee Ping added that in comparison to the previous da Vinci Si model, the new system is more auto-focus, it gives better visibility as well as better precision and safety.
"In contrast to previously, the da Vinci Xi sets up way faster and there is also fluorescent light included. Plus, the new system has incorporated tactile feedback for us to feel resistance when we touch something despite being on the console," she added.
Sunway Medical Centre also has more than 10 surgeons to perform robotic-assisted surgeries in gynaecology surgery, urology surgery, colorectal surgery, and hepatobiliary & bariatric surgery, with more to come.
Besides da Vinci Xi, Sunway Medical Centre also operated with systems such as Mako SmartRobotics and ROSA Knee System that enable surgeons to pre-plan their surgery.