Coordinated by the Director of the Surgery Unit of the Institute for Social Security Dr. Giovanni Landolfo, some of the largest in the sector have explored the fields of use, the potential and the economic advantages of this new frontier of surgery.
“We are not talking about an innovation, but a novelty, which will allow the Republic of San Marino and its Institute for Social Security to be able to attract new professionals, to increase the skills of the excellent professionals already available and to be able to do network with the health facilities surrounding its territory “. With these words, the General Director of the ISS Francesco Bevere opened this morning, in the Aula Magna of the University of the Republic of San Marino, the round table “Between present and future” dedicated to robotic surgery.
To insert the event is the greeting of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security, Roberto Ciavatta: “Investments in innovation, from diagnostics to operational and therapeutic instruments, will always be decisive in guaranteeing strategic growth of our health system, networking with the surrounding hospitals and increasing the professionalism of our operators. We cannot escape from what is happening all over the world, where investments in healthcare are increasingly substantial, especially after the two years of the pandemic. Therefore, I thank all the guests present here and I am sure that, thanks to the excellent work of the Director Francesco Bevere, the Republic of San Marino will soon be able to boast of having created a new sector of excellence “.
A coordinator of the works and the long series of experts in the sector intervened in the debate on the welfare state is the Director of the Surgery Unit of the Institute for Social Security Dr. Giovanni Landolfo. In particular, in his speech, he provided a long list of advantages that the aid of the surgical robot can guarantee, against the costs that the same technology requires: expansion of the operator’s capabilities, greater speed in procedures, operator of the invasiveness of the interventions and increased precision, user interface, fewer preparations in the preparation of the operating room and above all a better quality of the intervention in favor of the patient who will have a reduced hospital stay and many cases, a reduction in post-operative pain.
The interventions of true luminaries in the sector followed, including Elio Jovine, Professor at the University of Bologna and Director of the Experimental Surgery Department of the Sant’Orsola Hospital, Professor Michele Gallucci, of the “La Sapienza” University of Rome and former Medical Director of the UOC of Urology of the Umberto I Polyclinic in Rome, Dr. Piergiorgio Solli, Director of the Thoracic Surgery UOC of the Sant’Orsola Polyclinic of Bologna, prof. Francesco Facciolo of the “La Sapienza” University and Director of Thoracic Surgery of the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute in Rome, Professor Enrico Vizza at the “La Sapienza” University and president of SEGI, the Italian Society of Gynecological Endoscopy, Professor Paolo Marchetti, Professor of Medical Oncology at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Dr. Antonella Rossetti, Anatomopathologist specialist, co-founder and chief physician of Genomic Consulting in Rome.
All the interventions explained to the numerous audience of and interested parties present the clinical experience gained in the operating room with the use of the surgical robot, each for its own field of application and medical specialization of reference.
At the end of the intense morning of work, the ISS Director General, Francesco Bevere announced a new scientific appointment, in the month of September also in the Republic of San Marino, during the course the aspects of robotic surgery will be deepened, widening the scope of discussion to radiotherapy.

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