Doctor Diego González Rivas was the protagonist of the science section of the TV show “El Hormiguero” to show a new project that he is developing in Shanghai, the Shurui uniportal robot, the most advanced robotic system in the world. This new revolutionary robot allows operating on the thorax through minimal 2cm incision. There are people who appear every day on the news and maybe we wouldn have to pay so much attention to them and there are people who should appear every day, like Diego González Rivas,Pablo Motos said.They are heroes, added Carlos Latre, the famous Spanish comedian invited also the the TV show.
"The world of a surgeon" stars Diego González Rivas, a Spanish surgeon who travels the world teaching a minimally invasive technique for lung operations. He was born in A Coruña and no one has operated in more operating rooms than him: Mauritania, Gabon, India, Pakistan, Venezuela, Costa Rica... Thus, up to 126 countries. International fame came to this thoracic surgeon after in 2010 he performed the worlds first operation for lung cancer through a single incision of just five centimeters. His technique is called Uniportal VATS (Single Cut Minimally Invasive Chest Video Surgery).
The historical and cultural association The Royal Green Jackets has decided to concede to the doctor Diego González Rivas the medal of general gold Sir John Moore by his medical work and by his collaboration with the entity. "With this distinction want to recognise his intense work in favour of the Medicine and the collaboration requested to this association during several years in the recovery and diffusion of the historian in particular of the one of the city of A Coruña", they signal from The Royal Green Jackets.
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An odissey of 17.000 kilometres in seven days to visit seven hospitals in other so many cities and teach to operate in China and the Tíbet. This adventure, starred by the thoracic surgeon coruñés Diego González Rivas and his homologous Chinese Timothy Yang, explains in the road movie of the director Daniel López (Mandeo Films) ,"Seven days, seven cities". Yesterday we could see the première in the Foundation María José Jove in A Coruña to show how propagates the Uniportal Vats technique a Galician mark to take out the lung tumors through an only orifice.
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The first day that Diego González Rivas (A Coruña, 1974) went in a hospital remained "pasmado". It was a boy that this day accompanied to his mother, nurse. There are vocations that wake up with fury, and the one of González Rivas was imparable. Today this doctor of the hospital of A Coruña is the youngest member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery, operates all over the world, directs the program of videocirugía thoracic in the Shangai Pulmonary Hospital and, especially, has invented a technician. Something that calls Uniportal VATS.
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