{"id":248513,"date":"2026-01-20T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/248513\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:47:07","slug":"kent-hospitals-surgical-robot-helps-record-numbers-of-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/248513\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent hospital&#8217;s surgical robot helps record numbers of patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A surgical robot has helped a team at Maidstone Hospital carry out a record number of gallbladder operations in a single day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The procedure, known as a cholecystectomy, is traditionally carried out with keyhole surgery which usually allows staff to complete five operations a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the surgical team completed the procedure on seven patients thanks to the robot, which was controlled by the surgeon and gave them greater precision<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust spokesperson said: &#8220;Being able to provide gallbladder surgery to more people, more quickly, means better care for patients, as they experience fewer bouts of inflammation and fewer visits to A&amp;E during flare-ups.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A surgical robot has helped a team at Maidstone Hospital carry out a record number of gallbladder operations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-248513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}