When medication and other treatments cannot relieve your symptoms, hysterectomy is often recommended. It can provide a more effective, definitive and long-term solution for conditions like excessive menstrual bleeding.

If you are considering or your doctor has recommended a hysterectomy, you are not alone. One in three women in the United States will have a hysterectomy before turning 60.

da Vinci Hysterectomy offers several potential benefits over traditional approaches, including:

This procedure is performed using the da Vinci Surgical System. It is a breakthrough surgical platform that enables gynecologists to operate with unmatched precision, vision and control. By overcoming the limitations of both traditional open and laparoscopic surgery, da Vinci is revolutionizing gynecologic surgery for women. Read about how da Vinci Surgery enables gynecologists to perform the most precise, minimally invasive hysterectomy available today – da Vinci Hysterectomy.

Dr. Prewitt is currently with Forest Park Medical Center utilizing the minimally invasive da Vinci Surgical System for hysterectomy and laparoscopic procedures.  Read below to learn more about Dr. Maryann Prewitt and her da Vinci Surgical System practice at Forest Park Medical Center or simply click:  http://www.forestparkmc.com/davinci

When facing surgery, regardless of the condition, your primary concern is determining which surgeon and hospital will give you the best chance for the best possible outcome. Secondly, you want a surgical experience that will be the least disruptive to your everyday life.

Forest Park Medical Center is proud to offer da Vinci Robotic Surgery

When facing surgery, regardless of the condition, your primary concern is determining which surgeon and hospital will give you the best chance for the best possible outcome. Secondly, you want a surgical experience that will be the least disruptive to your everyday life.

Procedure Value
The da Vinci Surgical System combines computer and robotic technologies to create a new category of surgical treatment, robotic-assisted laparoscopic, thoracoscopic or endoscopic surgery. By providing surgeons with enhanced capabilities, the da Vinci Surgical System makes it possible to treat a broader range of conditions using a minimally invasive approach. This means that with da Vinci, you can have major surgery with only a few tiny incisions. In addition, your surgeon can operate with better visualization, precision, dexterity and control than possible using traditional surgical approaches.

Clinical studies suggest that the extended capabilities provided by the da Vinci System may help surgeons provide better clinical outcomes than conventional open and minimally invasive surgery allow – for example, better cancer control and a lower incidence of impotence and incontinence with da Vinci Prostatectomy.

In short, the da Vinci Surgical System combines robotics and surgical technology as never before, enabling your surgeon to provide the most effective and least invasive treatment option available for a wide range of complex conditions.

The da Vinci Robot is being used at Forest Park Medical Center in a wide variety of surgical procedures, including but not limited to the following:

• Hysterectomy, myomectomy and sacrocolpopexy
• Radical prostatectomy (da Vinci Prostatectomy)
• Robotic thyroidectomy
• General surgery