UKC Ljubljana performs 1,000 robot-assisted surgeries

The UKC Ljubljana medical centre has performed a thousand robot-assisted surgeries since it first started using a robot surgery system in 2018. Hospital officials say robotic surgery has met all expectations and even surpassed them in some areas.

Robotic surgery is done using a high-tech tool, controlled by the surgeon, that allows complicated surgeries to be done through small incisions with greater precision thanks to a 10-times enlarged 3D picture. The instruments approximate human hand movements but without the shaking.

UKC Ljubljana is currently using this technology in...