Al-Khobar Hospital Uses Robot for 12 Successful Open-Heart Surgeries
The Cardiac Center at King Fahd Hospital, part of Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, issued a press statement yesterday informing that it had successfully performed 12 open-heart surgeries utilizing a surgical robot. Dr. Fahd Makhdom, a cardiac surgeon at the university hospital, stressed that this is a significant advancement in