Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: LiveWell Talk On...
Episode: What is Single Port Robotic Surgery?
Description: Send us Fan MailUnityPoint Health - St. Lukeโs Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Dr. Jonathan Rippentrop, urologist from Physicians' Clinic of Iowa are once again pioneering robotic surgery utilizing single port (SP) robotics โ as the first and only hospital in the state with this technology โ adding it in 2019.The da Vinci Single Port SP, was initially released to a limited number of hospitals in the world. At St. Lukeโs the da Vinci SP is used for certain urologic procedures including prostatectomies and nephrectomies.ย With the da Vinci SP surgeons operate u...