Changqing Gao
Editor

2014

Since robotic technology was introduced into the cardiac surgical fi eld in 1998, the dream of cardiac surgeons to perform cardiac procedures in the closed chest has come true. With an outlook into the future, the PLA General Hospital took the lead to install the first da Vinci S Surgical System in China in 2006. Th e surgical team of the PLA General Hospital has started the cutting-edge techniques of minimally invasive robotic surgery in China. Our team had gone through tremendous trial investigations and hard work before they finally succeeded in using da Vinci S Surgical System in China .