We take you inside the UnityPoint Health - St. Luke’s Hospital operating room in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for a robotic hysterectomy.
Watch as Drs. Jerry Rozeboom and Owen McCarron from OB-GYN Associates give you step-by-step descriptions during the robotic hysterectomy procedure.
The patient had a condition called adenomyosis, which is a form of endometriosis. All of the symptoms she was experiencing was due to this condition. Dr. Rozeboom says having the hysterectomy will alleviate these troubles for this patient.
Go to unitypoint.org/roboticsurgery to learn more about our program.
St. Luke's was the first in Cedar Rapids to install the da Vinci surgical robot in its operating rooms in 2005. Since that time surgeons at St. Luke’s have performed thousands of robotic surgeries. The hospital is also a robotic training center for other surgeons across the county. The hospital recently installed the most advanced surgical robot in its OR.
