{"id":1291,"date":"2013-05-22T13:28:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T17:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:24:14","slug":"robotics-program-hits-another-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/uncategorized\/robotics-program-hits-another-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotics program hits another milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-center\"><em>The Otolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery team began using the da Vinci robot (in the background)<br \/>\nlast month \u2013 another milestone in TOH\u2019s robotics program.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first two trans-oral robotic surgeries in Ottawa were performed last month, making TOH the second place in Canada to perform this type of surgery, in which the da Vinci robot is inserted into the mouth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had two flawless cases,\u201d said Dr. Michael Fung-Kee-Fung, who heads the robotics team that also includes nurses (led by RN Bob Weber), anesthesiologists (led by Dr. Calvin Thompson), and the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery team (led by Dr. Marty Corsten and Dr. Mike Odell).<\/p>\n<p>The da Vinci Surgical System has been used since 2011 for prostate and gynecological surgeries; now the otolaryngology team will use it as well. The first case was a simple tonsillectomy and the second was to remove a cancerous tumour at the base of the tongue, explained Dr. Corsten. Using robotic surgery for early stage tonsil and tongue base cancers allows some patients to avoid chemotherapy and radiation therapy while other patients can avoid having the jaw split for access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think it has significant advantages,\u201d said Dr. Corsten. \u201cThe robot is extremely intuitive to use. It\u2019s a very slick way of operating.\u201d The robot can manoeuvre in tight spaces in the mouth and move in all directions, in ways that surgeons\u2019 hands cannot.<\/p>\n<p>A doctor from London, Ont., who has performed these surgeries before, attended and praised the high performance of TOH\u2019s surgical team. \u201cI have to believe this is what \u2018top 10\u2019 looks like \u2013 great teams doing innovative things,\u201d said Dr. Fung-Kee-Fung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Otolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery team began using the da Vinci robot (in the background) last month \u2013 another milestone in TOH\u2019s robotics program. The first two trans-oral robotic surgeries in Ottawa were performed last month, making TOH the second place in Canada to perform this type of surgery, in which the da Vinci robot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":1292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}