NEW YORK — In the working room of NYC Health + Hospitals/ South Brooklyn Health, robotic arms belonging to a Da Vinci Surgical System have been working over a affected person, whereas a surgeon managed them remotely from a nook of the room.

“All it does is allows us to use much smaller hands than our hands,” defined urologist Dr. Abdo Kabarriti.

The group at South Brooklyn Health launched its robotic surgical program final summer season. With this 12 months’s ribbon cutting of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital on campus, it managed to hit the five hundredth mark within the span of a 12 months.

Coney Island resident Lizette Rodriguez-Ayala not too long ago underwent a kidney cyst removing. She was the milestone affected person.

“I was like, wait a minute. A robot? I don’t know if we can do that. You know, like, are you going to be doing it?” she recalled. “He said, ‘No, I’m going to be assisting the robot…because it makes it easier for me to see because of where this, this was placed.'”

Dr. Kabarriti, who has performed lots of of such surgical procedures, mentioned the advantages embrace smaller incisions, extra precision, and fewer blood loss.

“We have offered this surgery to a lot of different subspecialties,” he informed CBS New York throughout an unique tour of the working room. “Including general surgery, colorectal surgery, gynecology, bariatric surgery, urology, thoracic surgery. So it’s not limited to one field.”

The lots of of surgical procedures have been made attainable with $2.6 million in funding from City Council in 2021.

South Brooklyn Health, previously referred to as Coney Island Hospital, serves a group of greater than half 1,000,000 individuals.

Hospital leaders like Dr. Muthukumar Muthusamy, chairman of surgical procedure, mentioned they look after a big aged inhabitants and lower-income communities.

“Our hospital is mainly geared to serve the people who are in the trenches, so we are an inner city hospital. And so, this technology is available for underserved, uninsured patients as well,” he defined.

The campus is hoping to increase this system with the acquisition of a second robotic, which can double its surgical talents.

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