Coral Springs Medical Center is the first and only hospital in Broward, and among the few in the nation, to acquire the da Vinci surgical system.

The state-of-the-art robotic platform, designed to enhance the capabilities of surgeons, provides a new, minimally invasive approach to a series of complex surgeries, including hysterectomies and myomectomies, prostate and other urologic procedures; as well as cardiothoracic, colorectal, bariatric surgeries.

The robotic arms have been engineered to precisely mimic the movement of the surgeon’s fingers, wrists and hands and can only operate when commanded by the surgeon.

Benefits to patients typically include less blood loss, less chance of infection, a shorter hospital stay, less pain, less scarring and faster recovery. The first surgery at the hospital using the robotic platform was a laparoscopic hysterectomy performed by Boniface Ndubisi.

The system, which was recently featured on ABC’s Good Morning America, is the latest addition to the da Vinci Surgical System product line by Intuitive Surgical, Inc.