Surgeons from Ramsay Sante Jean Mermoz Private Hospital in France have carried out effective exchanges on robot-assisted pancreatic surgeries in a leading hospital in China's Guangzhou, and the two sides agreed to further cooperate to build a more hopeful future for patients battling pancreatic diseases.
At the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, capital city of south China's Guangdong Province, Professor Yin Xiaoyu's team began performing robot-assisted pancreatic surgeries in 2015. Since then, his team has completed more than 800 such procedures.
According to the World Health Organization, around 470,000 people die from pancreatic diseases each year.
Surgeons from the Jean Mermoz hospital observed several surgeries of robot-assisted pancreaticoduodenectomy at the hospital in Guangzhou city.
"Over the past few days, I showed several cases of the robot-assisted pancreaticoduodenectomy for them, and we discussed surgical techniques," said Yin Xiaoyu, also vice president of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University.
"Here I found some technical points. I will come back home with it. And next week, I will do it on my own patient. The other thing we try to find here is to see how it is in a hive robotic pancreatic surgery center, to see the organization, to see how it's possible to do it very, very often," said Raphael Bourdariat, general and digestive surgeon with Jean Mermoz hospital.
"The hospital provides a lot of stuff and materials to help nurse work, like robots, like pumps that transfer materials, etc.," said Wilfrid Bolopion, senior scrub nurse with Jean Mermoz hospital.
The Ramsay Sante Jean Mermoz Private Hospital performs about 140 pancreatic surgeries each year.
Chinese, French surgeons exchange expertise on robot-assisted pancreatic surgery
