The robotic surgery program of Hospital da Luz Network continues to be a national reference within the Portuguese health system, highlighting, in recent years, the intense activity of the Robotic Surgery Unit of Hospital da Luz Arrábida - the only hospital outside the Lisbon region to make this cutting-edge surgical technology available. Now, by the way, Hospital da Luz Arrábida is the hospital with the most robotic surgeries performed in the North and Center of the country and the only one that has a surgical robot in the northern region . This innovative surgical technique has been developing as a reference technique in more and more areas of medicine, such as urology, gynecology, general surgery, or cardiology , with Grupo Luz Saúde continuing to be at the forefront of this innovative and technologically top. As for the HL Arrábida program, it is currently particularly focused on prostate surgery, with more than half a hundred surgeries performed since it began, thus offering highly differentiated care to patients with prostate pathology and indication for surgical intervention. The Hospital da Luz Network has some of the best national specialists in this technique. The knowledge, the acquired experience, and the commitment to the training of medical and nursing teams, always aiming at this type of surgical approach, have, in fact, transformed Hospital da Luz Arrábida into a reference in minimally invasive surgery and robotic surgery in the north of the country. Robotic surgery is a type of minimally invasive surgery , in which robotic devices controlled by the surgeon are used. Its technical characteristics increase the safety of procedures and enhance the advantages that conventional minimally invasive surgery has for patients. In prostatic pathology, robotic surgery provides patients with better clinical results in the fight against oncological disease and facilitates a more effective and safer recovery. Radical prostatectomy by robotic surgery, for example, which the surgeons at Hospital da Luz Arrábida perform regularly, allows a better visualization of the anatomical structures, thus facilitating the execution of more complex surgical techniques and with better functional results for patients, namely in terms of recovery of erectile function and speed in the reversal of urinary continence. Meet the Robotic Surgery Unit at Hospital da Luz Arrábida and its clinical team.
