Learn About Our Life-Saving Surgical Robots

Join us on Saturday, January 23, 2010

for a Demonstration of our newest

daVinci Robot 

  

 …and learn how you can help name it!

 

At only 40, and a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Earl Scott had been a fitness buff his entire life. In November 2007, he noticed shortness of breath and his wife urged him to get a physical. Scott recalls, “The tests came back negative and after I started taking aspirin on a regular basis, the symptoms went away. So I wasn’t worried.” In April 2008, the symptoms returned but more severe. Test results at the Travis Air Force Base ER, indicated he had suffered a mild heart attack. He was transferred to the Queen of the Valley Medical Center for more tests. At the Queen, a plaque deposit was found in Scott’s anterior descending coronary artery. He was scheduled for a robotically assisted coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), to reopen the blood vessel. “I was glad I qualified for the minimally invasive procedure,” Scott says. He recalls, “I spent one night in the hospital. The next morning all the tubes and wires were removed and by noon I was up and walking around. I was back to moderate exercise in a few weeks and in a few months I was back to work and my normal workout routine.”  

 

“Our daVinci Robotic Surgical System makes it possible to do a wide variety of open-heart procedures using minimally invasive techniques, says Dr. Deeik. “Procedures that used to require large incisions to expose the heart and major blood vessels can now be accomplished through tiny incisions oriented between the ribs. Patients are often able to go home the following day and back to normal activity within a week. That leads to better outcomes and improved patient satisfaction, two priorities for all of us here at the Queen.”  

Join us for live demonstrations of the systems and speak directly to the doctors who use them.

We will also announce the kick-off for a students “Name The Robot” contest. 

  Beginning at 10:00am, Main Conference Room, 1st floor

 

 Saturday, January 23, 2010 

Activities:                                                                                                                                      

1 – Demos of a new daVinci Robotic Surgical System                                                  

 2 – Q&A with MDs that use the systems: Ramzi Deeik, MD; Suzana Gonzalez, MD; Herkenwal Khaira, MD 

1000 Trancas Street, Napa 

RSVP to 707-257-4044 or qvmcfoundation@stjoe.org  

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