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PUMCH Department of General Surgery Performed 1,000 Robot-assisted Surgeries
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On December 7, 2022, the Department of General Surgery, PUMCH successfully completed the 999th and 1,000th case of robotic-assisted surgery. In August 2012, Academician Zhao Yupei completed the first pancreatic robotic surgery, making PUMCH one of the earliest adopters of robotic surgeries in China. Since then, robotic surgery has, alongside open surgery and minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery, among others, become a major surgical procedure in PUMCH. Today, not only difficult surgical procedures such as Whipple have become common, but also robotic surgery has long been popular in urology, obstetrics and gynecology and other related departments.

Robotic surgeries have been successfully completed one after another over the past ten years, and the collaboration of teams is indispensable. With the support of the operating rooms of the Department of Anesthesiology, the anesthesia for robotic-assisted surgery has been continuously improved to achieve precise anesthesia management. The information management system of robotic surgical consumables developed under the leadership of the operating rooms is capable of traceability and multi-dimensional meticulous accounting throughout the entire operation.

Under the leadership of Academician Zhao Yupei, the surgical team continues to tap  evidence-based medicine to enlarge the indications of robotic minimally invasive surgery through clinical practice. Professor Dai Menghua and his team members found through RCT that robotic-assisted surgical treatment of resectable and/or potentially resectable pancreatic cancer may benefit patient survival.

In the future, PUMCH plans to step up training in robotic-assisted surgery and include more young surgeons.



Academician Zhao Yupei was performing a robotic surgery



Professor Dai Menghua was discussing how the surgery went with his team



Written by reporter Wang Lu

Photographed by Sun Liang

Translated by Liu Haiyan

Edited by Hou Rui and Wang Yao