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August 27, 2021

Benefits of Robotic Surgery in Elizabethtown, KY

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Robotic surgery allows us to perform procedures that
would be more difficult if we were doing them

in another manner.

It allows us to get into very small,
tight spaces with very precise movements that we

wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

Patients have a lot of benefit from being able to
undergo a robotic procedure.

So they generally recover quicker,
pain is usually less with robotic surgery than with a

standard open procedure.

The hospital time is often shorter,
there are smaller incisions,

less downtime after surgery and there's a lot of
benefits for patients.

Sometimes I'll tell my patients that we're going to do
their surgery and I'm going to use a robot to do it and

they think that it's a robot performing their surgery
and it's not.

It's me performing the surgery,
just using the robot as a tool and so it is very safe.

The surgeon is in control the entire time.

It's actually, in a lot of cases,
safer than the traditional way of doing surgery.

There are procedures that we weren't able to do before
any way other than through a traditional open method

that we now can do minimally invasive,
simply because we have the robot available.

I love doing robotic surgery.

It's fun for me, but it's a great benefit for our
patients and that's the most important part.

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Benefits of Robotic Surgery in Elizabethtown, KY HealthTalks Transcript

Allison Cardin, MD, Urology:
Robotic surgery allows us to perform procedures that would be more difficult if we were doing them in another manner. It allows us to get into very small, tight spaces with very precise movements that we wouldn’t be able to do otherwise. Patients have a lot of benefit from being able to undergo a robotic procedure: They generally recover quicker; the pain is usually less with robotic surgery than with a standard, open procedure; the hospital time is often shorter; they’re smaller incisions; and [there is] less downtime after surgery. There’s a lot of benefits for patients.

Sometimes I’ll tell my patients that we’re going to do their surgery and I’m going to use a robot to do it. They think that it’s a robot performing the surgery and it’s not. It’s me performing the surgery just using the robot as a tool. It is very safe. The surgeon is in control the entire time. It’s actually, in a lot of cases, safer than the traditional way of doing surgery. There are procedures that we weren’t able to do before other than through a traditional, open method that we now can do as a minimally invasive [procedure], simply because we have the robot available.

I love doing robotic surgery. It’s fun for me, but it’s a great benefit for our patients and that’s the most important part.

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