WAUKESHA, WI- ProHealth Care will broadcast a surgery live via the Internet during a webcast at 10 a.m., Thursday, August 10. The surgery will be a robotic prostatectomy procedure using the da Vinci Surgical System at Waukesha Memorial Hospital.
This is the second in a series of four webcasts ProHealth Care is presenting throughout 2006.
In a 2006 study, HealthGrades, the nation's leading independent health care quality company, rated Waukesha Memorial 5-star in prostatectomy. The hospital's Center for Prostate Care now offers prostate cancer patients robotic prostatectomy surgery using the state-of-the-art da Vinci® Surgical System. By integrating computer-enhanced technology with the surgeons' skills, the da Vinci® robotic system allows surgeons to perform precise, minimally invasive surgery in a manner never before experienced. Benefits to patients may include reduced pain and trauma to the body, less blood loss, less post-operative pain, less risk of infection, shorter hospital stays and a faster recovery and return to normal daily activities.
Brian Butler, MD, ProHealth Care urologist, will perform the surgery, and Jon Auger, MD, ProHealth Care urologist, will moderate the event. The webcast will give viewers the opportunity to see the robotic surgery as it happens, and to ask questions of the surgeon and moderator during the live event.
