Barcelona hospital performs world's first fully robotic lung transplant
STORY: Barcelona hospital performs world's first fully robotic lung transplant
DATELINE: April 19, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:31
LOCATION: Barcelona, Spain
CATEGORY: HEALTH
SHOTLIST:
1. various of Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona
2. various of pictures of the surgery
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Catalan): ALBERT JAUREGUI, Head of the Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplants Department at Vall d'Hebron
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): XAVIER, Lung transplant patient
STORYLINE:
Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona has carried out the world's first fully robotic lung transplant using a minimally invasive technique that does not require cutting through bone.
Surgeons announced on Monday that they utilized a four-armed "Da Vinci" medical robot to make an eight-centimeter incision above the diaphragm to remove the damaged lung and insert a new one.
This groundbreaking procedure avoids the traditional method of separating the ribs to open up the thorax, which was the only available option until now. The doctors also noted that i
- Product Code
- ILEA001264336
- Registered date
- 2023/4/19 00:00:00
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- Xinhua / Kyodo News Images
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