Surgeons at Guy’s and St Thomas’ opened their operating theatre to health professionals from across the country when they beamed live surgical cases to a prestigious conference.
The Trust was chosen to broadcast its pioneering robotic assisted operations to the Future Surgery event, which took place at ExCeL London from Tuesday 14 to Wednesday 15 November. The live surgery was carried out on Wednesday 15 November.
Ben Challacombe, clinical lead for robotic surgery at Guy’s and St Thomas’, led the UK’s first ever live broadcast of a case with the Hugo robotic-assisted surgery system from Medtronic. The patient, a 73-year-old retired GP, had his prostate removed after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
