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^- So, today for Keesler was us launching robotic surgery,

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which will now give us the ability to

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do cases that we were unable to do here.

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That we had an ability to do down at Merit Health

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downtown, we can now do them at our own base.

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- I had a great deal of robotics experience in my

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fellowship before coming to Keesler.

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And up to this point, we've been taking all the robotics

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^cases to Merit Health Biloxi, under what's called

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^an URSA agreement.

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^But we saw that as more product lines at Keesler were

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utilizing robotics, we felt the need was here for us to

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go through the acquisitions process.

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And I kind of led the charge on that, with help from

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numerous individuals, Major Talmer, Lieutenant Hoskins,

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and some of the other robotic surgeons in the facility.

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The abilities of the robot, the visualization is better.

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You can do more with your wrists, you can create

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unique angles with the wrist, whereas the laparoscopic

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instruments are traditionally rigid instruments.

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So we can do more with our hands, we can see better,

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and that lets us limit the incision, which lets patients

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recover faster with less pain.

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So I think this is a tremendous opportunity for all the

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patients here at Keesler, including the VA patients

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that we take care of here as well.

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Start taking that over towards the liver, see that kinda ...

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- [Make Voice] Yes.

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- Right here, you can take a little bit of that.

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I think your artery's gonna be underneath there.

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We are the first Air Force Hospital to go through that

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acquisitions process, and the first to acquire

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the robotic technology.

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And as we see trends in the private sector,

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the utilization of this technology is increasing

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across many different specialties.

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And we can do so much more with small incisions,

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and that really is driven by patient outcomes,

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and that's our goal.

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^- I was told that This didn't seem like a first surgery,

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^that it was really smooth in comparison to most

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facilities when they do their first robotics case.

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Usually it's a rough, steep learning curve,

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and here it was very smooth, and it seemed like

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we had been doing it for a long period of time.

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- So, many times in a da Vinci program,

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the nurses and techs kinda learn on the job.

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But here, at least, we have training before we go in.

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Makes us much more efficient with the communication,

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the language we use.

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I think that helped us with today,

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having to get through it, and get through it quick.

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So it was perfect for us.