Roper St. Francis Healthcare-Top Provider of Robotic Colorectal Care

Roper St. Francis Healthcare has emerged as the top provider of Robotic Colorectal Care in South Carolina for the year 2011. The hospital has been providing exceptional robotic colorectal surgery and post-surgical care.

More than a hundred robotic colorectal surgeries have been conducted at the hospital, these surgeries were conducted under the supervision of Jorges Lagares-Garcia. He is an expert in this field having performed over 100 surgeries at the hospital. RSFH stands fourth in the country for robotic colorectal care.

Dr. Lagares-Garcia has the unique distinction of being the only surgeon in South Carolina who is certified to perform robotic colorectal surgery using the da Vinci surgical system. He also trains a number of surgeons on the usage of the da Vinci system for performing surgeries. The winning combination of Dr. Lagares-Garcia and da Vinci surgical system has been successful in breaking the hospital’s earlier track records with conventional rectal cancer surgery. Dr. Lagares-Garcia explained that in robotic assisted surgery, the robot does not work on its own, it is controlled by the limb movements of the surgeon. He added that robotic surgery is more accurate and reduces duration of hospital stay for the patients. The da Vinci system is a robot-assisted tool that is used in performing minimally invasive surgery. The tool enables surgeons to perform delicate and complex surgeries with improved accuracy and precision. The recovery is faster since there is minimum incision required for this kind of surgery. Apart from robotic aided surgery for colon cancer the hospital also performs gynaecological surgeries using minimally invasive surgical techniques with the da Vinci System.