{"id":8565,"date":"2018-05-25T17:19:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T17:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8565"},"modified":"2018-05-25T17:19:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T17:19:25","slug":"da-vinci-surgical-system-shown-to-the-public-at-vbmc-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8565","title":{"rendered":"Da Vinci Surgical System Shown to the Public at VBMC Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8566\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0878.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8566\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0878.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Jose Nieves demonstrates how the Da Vinci Surgical system works at VBMC in Brownsville. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0878.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0878-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0878-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0878-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jose Nieves demonstrates how the Da Vinci Surgical system works at VBMC in Brownsville. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A relatively new system to perform a number of surgeries using a spider-like robot was displayed at the two Valley Baptist Medical Center hospitals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The robotic system is called Da Vinci Surgical and it was at VBMC-Harlingen on Thursday, May 17 and at VBMC-Brownsville the day before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The less invasive system is being used in a number of surgical procedures, leaves smaller scars and allows a patient to recover in less time, compared to conventional surgeries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dr. Jose Nieves, one seven certified robotic surgeons at the Brownsville hospital, said any type of surgery comes with a risk, but the Da Vinci system lowers that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He estimates it takes about two weeks for a patient to recover from surgery on the average, instead of a month or longer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An average of 150 robotic surgeries are performed at VBMC in Brownsville.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A Da Vinci system costs about $1.9 million with eight of them located in Rio Grande Valley hospitals today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN A relatively new system to perform a number of surgeries using a spider-like robot was displayed at the two Valley Baptist Medical Center hospitals. The robotic system is called Da Vinci Surgical and it was at VBMC-Harlingen on Thursday, May 17 and at VBMC-Brownsville the day before. The less invasive system is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8567,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions\/8567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}