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Columbia VA’s robotic surgery teams completed their 800th robotic surgery and are on schedule to hit 1,000 by the end of the year.

Northport VA surgeons launch state-of-the-art robotic surgical system with urological procedure on Veteran’s prostate. Some patients home the same day.

With robotic surgeries Veterans experience less pain during recovery, shorter recovery period and a lower risk of infection.

Physician assistant helped develop one of the nation’s largest robotic thoracic surgery training programs.

VA surgeon says new technology is very powerful. Surgeries performed with precise accuracy, allowing for better outcomes for Veterans.

Medical staff is using robotic surgery for a wide variety of procedures, from less complex cases, such as hernia repairs and cholecystectomies, to very complex cases, like bariatric, colorectal, hepatobiliary and pancreas surgeries.

The da Vinci system – Tampa’s second - is used for one to three surgical procedures each day. It is operated from a remote console by a surgeon to perform minimally invasive surgical procedures.

Houston VA surgery staff is using robotic technology to improve recovery time for Veterans with limited mobility who are often in a great deal of pain.

At VA Augusta Health Care System, a Sterile Processing Services team of 24 works hard to clean and prepare over 10,000 tools each month, keeping everything germ-free to ensure every surgery at VA Augusta Health Care System goes smoothly.

Houston VA performed single port robotic simple prostatectomy using the da Vinci Surgical System.

Robot-assisted surgery lets doctors perform complex procedures with more precision and flexibility than with conventional techniques.

Researchers performed experimental surgery implanting electrodes into a Veteran with an amputated foot, hoping that they would pick up his brain’s electrical signals.