Since there is a second-hand market for the vehiclesa market second hand for clothes, there is also a reuse channel for less conventional devices: surgical robots for example. This is because the CHU from Lille decided to buy state-of-the-art block robots that a public hospital group in the Lille suburbs was able to equip for not a round of a Da Vinci Si, first hand, year 2018, less than 2,000 interventions in the counter.
A little over two weeks ago, surgeons at the Lille University Hospital Center (CHU) received their two new toys: the latest generation Da Vinci Xi robots. The best of the best: improved ease of use, high-definition 3D vision, high-precision articulated instruments… As a result, the old robot, commissioned in 2018, was losing its usefulness. Why continue to drive a Twingo when you have a Porsche?
A very good deal for the GHSC
It’s a bit exaggerated as a comparison, the previous Da Vinci model not having become obsolete for all that. Moreover, the machine, which cost all the same between 750,000 and almost 2 million euros when it was released, it was already equipped with 3D technology. A very good deal therefore for the hospital group of Seclin Carvin (GHSC) which recovers the robot free of charge. Another benefit, the GHSC will not even need to train its surgeons in the handling of the Da Vinci, the latter having become accustomed to operating some of their patients with it in the blocks of the CHU.
Exchange of good practices therefore: the CHU gains in performance and the GHSC now has a robot at home. A high-tech reuse that will not displease the planet.