CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital Leading Tech-Based Care

CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital is embracing robotic technology to improve the patient experience. New robotics assisted surgery is helping both surgeons and the patients at Mercy Hospital. Orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Evan Tavakoli says the addition of multiple new robotic technologies makes Mercy an industry leader.

These robots are kind of focused on basically providing more accurate and precise surgery, especially with joint replacement. It allows us to do specialized implants that don’t contain any kind of nickel, as well as imageless based technologies.

Advancements like AI and robotics are becoming a larger part of medicine around the world, but Dr. Tavakoli says Mercy offers the widest variety of technology in the four corners.

So we have multiple robots here that help us perform knee replacement. One is an image base, which requires a CT scan and radiation to help us perform the robotic knee replacement. We have also other robotic systems that allow us to perform this image list, which don’t require a CT scan. There’s pros and cons to each one, but we’re the only facility in the four corners area that offers this type of robotic technology.

As an orthopedic surgeon at CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital, he’s had as close a relationship with advancing medical technologies as anyone.

It’s been pretty amazing to be, you know, kind of part of these, learn these new techniques, learn these new systems. You know, you get to a point where using them for a while, you get so comfortable, you couldn’t imagine doing these type of surgeries without them. The amount of information and the amount of assistance that they provide, you really become a believer over time.

Dr. Tavakoli says the robotics technology helps the care team plan each joint replacement better, as well as gathering more individual data points, which ultimately is better for the patient.

They allow us to do joint replacement and robotic joint replacement without CT scan or the radiation of the CT scan. Once again, using implants that don’t contain any nickel, which we know can be an allergen for some people. Robotics as a whole allows us to do more precise and accurate surgery.

CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital is embracing the potential this technology brings to other care options beyond joint replacement.

I think one is looking at, you know, what all surgeries can we use this for to making every surgery that we do as accurate and precise as we can. The other thing is, you know, these technologies are constantly taking in data, and that data is being used to make it better for every patient that comes after that.

Dr. Tavakoli is excited to be on the forefront of robotics assisted medical technology, and CommonSpirit Mercy Hospital is committed to advancing the technology as well as using it. To find expert orthopedic care near you, simply visit mountain.commonspirit.org. Thank you for watching this edition of “Mercy Hospital’s Minutes” powered by the local news network.