Watch a Robot Make Sushi at LVH Event

The is trying to raise awareness of its robotics program, one of the most extensive in the region. The Robotic Surgery Patient Care Team recently completed more than 1,500 surgeries.

• As part of its "12 Days of Robotics" event, LVHN will host the Simulated Olympics at Kome in the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley from 12 p.m.-7 p.m. April 24. Participants will compete by stacking as many objects as possible in 120 seconds using a robotic video game. If you’re a master at Wii sports, this is the competition for you. Open to all ages. The top 16 scorers will move onto the final round April 25 from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. The winner will be awarded a gold medal and an iPad, the second place winner receives an iPod Touch.

• Kome and (or at barnesandnoble.com under the ID #10734598), a portion of the sales on April 24 will benefit LVHN’s Gynecologic Cancers, Research and Robotics Fund. The money is used to develop new robotic treatments for surgery, research and education through LVHN’s Scholars Program.
• Lehigh Valley Hospital surgeons will step out of the surgical theater and into the kitchen in the second annual on April 25. This year's competition has a twist: one of the robots will compete.

Dr. Martin Martino, a gynecologic oncologist and robotic surgeon at Lehigh Valley Hospital, who organized the "12 Days of Robotics" event with other surgeons, regards robotics as the wave of the future in surgery. Among robotic surgery's benefits is faster recovery time for patients and less post-surgery pain has been reported.

“Robotic surgery has been developed to offer patients a newer approach to traditional open surgery," Martino said. "Just as technology has evolved with cell phones from the older flip phones to the newer iPhones with apps, so have our surgical tools.”