Robotic surgery comes to Sharon Regional

Sharon Regional Medical Center is offering advanced robotic technology to help give patients who need surgery faster recovery times following their procedures. The hospital offers the advanced robotics technologies to patients in Lawrence and Mercer counties, including two individual robotics systems used for general surgery as well as for knee arthroplasty or knee replacement surgery. The new technology includes the da Vinci XI Surgical System with Integrated Table Motion system, which can be used across a spectrum of minimally invasive surgeries including gynecology, urology, thoracic, cardiac and general surgery procedures. The second system is called the NAVIO Surgical System, which is used for knee arthroplasty procedures. Dr. Randy Hofius, a board-certified general surgeon who specializes in hernia and gallbladder surgeries, and Dr. Shateel Nijhawan, a board-certified general and bariatric surgeon, are performing procedures with the da Vinci system; Dr. Stephen Hand, a board-certified orthopedist, will perform the region's first robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty in the Mercer and Lawrence county areas in the coming weeks.