Greenslopes Private Hospital is the first hospital in Queensland to offer patients access to the latest technology for radical prostate surgery.

Queensland Robotic Surgery at Greenslopes Private Hospital has invested in the da Vinci ® Surgical System to enable urologists to provide their patients with this superior minimally invasive surgical option for radical prostate surgery.

Use of the da Vinci® Surgical System represents the fastest growing treatment for prostate cancer world-wide.

What is Robotic Surgery
Robotic systems replicate the surgeon’s hand movement at the very tips of the miniature instruments inside the patient. It makes for an intuitive approach with superior precision, allowing surgeons to perform more complex surgery in a key hole fashion, for a wider variety of patients. The robot only needs incisions of less than 1 cm.

Some of the benefits of the robot assisted surgery include shorter stay in hospital, less pain, less risk of infection and a faster recovery.

A robotic prostatectomy patient can typically go home in 3 or 4 days with minimal or no pain and return to normal activities.

For further information about Greenslopes Private Hospital visit www.greenslopesprivate.com.au