The month of milestones for da Vinci

May was a month of da Vinci milestones with Dr Arvind Vasudevan and Dr Ding Guo reaching a combined 300 da Vinci procedures on Friday 19 May, and Dr Abe Jacob completing his 100th da Vinci procedure on Wednesday 31 May.

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Dr Vasudevan and Dr Guo only celebrated a combined 200 robotic procedures with da Vinci in May 2022, so have made great strides in 12-months. Both surgeons are looking forward to performing many more to improve the health and lifestyle of their patients with minimally invasive robotic-assisted technology.

Additionally, it was only September 2022 that Theatre celebrated Dr Jacob’s 50th da Vinci procedure, which was an achievement that took 18-months from his first case in March 2021. In half that time, Dr Jacob has now reached his 100th procedure.

Not only does Dr Jacob use his rapidly developing skills on the da Vinci system to treat his own patients, but he will regularly make himself available to provide general surgery support to urological and gynaecological surgeons during their complex robotic procedures.

St John of God Murdoch Hospital is extremely proud to offer such a multi-disciplinary robotic service that is currently unrivalled in Western Australia.

The da Vinci robot arrived at Murdoch in November 2019 and is used for a range of different surgeries including urology, gynaecology, colorectal and bariatric.

In June 2023, Murdoch is on track to reach a new milestone of 1000 cases of robotic surgeries across these specialties.

Reaching milestones like this is a remarkable achievement for all involved.

Congratulations to everyone on the massive accomplishments.