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Learn More About Our Recent Blog Topics!

Disease prevention starts with learning more about living a healthier life and understanding your risk factors. You can read more about heart disease, stroke, and our other recent blog topics by looking through the links below.

• Are you at risk for a stroke? Understand your risk factors for stroke by reading this article from the American Stroke Association. 
   
• Read more about the different types of stroke on the National Stroke Association website. 
   
• This American Heart Association article describes the warning signs of impending heart failure. 
   
• The University of Maryland School of Medicine outlines the causes of heart failure on their website. 
   
• Read more about the dangers of atrial fibrillation from this PubMed Health article.
   
• The Brown University School of Medicine has a great overview of robotic surgical procedures on their website. 
   
• This article from Medscape.com provides some information on the advantages of robot-assisted surgery.
   
• Obesity can lead to many chronic medical conditions, including type-2 diabetes mellitus.  Learn more about his type of diabetes from the American Diabetes Association. 
   
• The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute answers some frequently asked questions about maintaining a healthy weight on their website.
   
• If you are trying to lose weight, make sure you do so safely.  This WebMD.com article has some helpful and safe weight loss tips. 

If you have any further questions, let MountainView Hospital of Las Vegas be your resource.  Contact us at (702) 233-5300 today.

Sleep Tips for Overnight Workers

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MountainView Hospital First in Nevada to Perform Robotic Bariatric Surgery

The Advances in Surgery Made Possible by Robotic Systems

Advances in technology are revolutionizing medical diagnostics and treatment with the invention of smarter, more complex machines. The use of robots to assist in surgery has given surgeons the ability to perform procedures with better geometric accuracy and on smaller scales. Robotic arms can access the tissues of the body much easier through a small incision than a surgeon’s hand and can integrate large amounts of data from diagnostic images to execute surgery with amazing precision. Robotic arms are also able to filter out hand tremors and scale down hand movements to much smaller ones inside the patient.

The introduction of robotic surgical systems has allowed many types of open surgery to be performed as minimally invasive procedures. Gall bladder removal (cholecystectomy), gastric bypass, and appendectomy are all among the procedures that can now be performed with the assistance of robots through tiny ‘keyhole’ incisions, dramatically reducing the complications associated with traditional open surgery. Performing surgery in this way typically results in:

• Less scarring than open surgery
• Reduced recovery times due to the smaller incisions and reduced tissue damage
• Less risk of infection, as the robotic arms can be sterilized
• Less blood loss
• Reduced trauma to the body
• Shorter hospital stay
• Faster recovery from the procedure—can return to daily activities much faster

MountainView Hospital’s Robotic Surgery Program combines the skill of our experienced physicians with the advanced technology of surgical robotics. We offer this approach as an option to treat a wide variety of medical conditions, and we are the only hospital in Nevada to offer a robotic approach to surgical weight loss. To be referred to a physician who performs robotic surgery at our hospital, contact us at (702) 233-5300.

Did you know that February is National Heart Month? At MountainView, your heart is in great hands!