What You Need to Know
Experts at Jersey Shore University Medical Center are now providing patients with minimally invasive, robotic-assisted bronchoscopy procedures with the Ion endoluminal system. Bronchoscopy is an endoscopic (utilizing a tiny tube-like device) technique used to visualize airways and the lungs, which also enables biopies to be done; the removal of tissue samples for testing.
Ion is designed to address a challenging aspect of lung biopsy by enabling physicians to obtain tissue samples from deep within the lung. The Ion system features an ultra-thin, ultra-maneuverable catheter that allows navigation far into the peripheral lung, and unprecedented stability enables the precision needed for biopsy compared to manual techniques. During bronchoscopy with Ion, the physician uses the controller to navigate to the target along a planned path. The catheter can articulate 180° in any direction to pass through small, difficult-to-navigate airways and around tight bends to reach all 18 segments of the lung.
The Ion system is designed to fit easily into a bronchoscopy suite and integrate with existing technologies, such as JSUMC’s da Vinci robotic-assisted surgical systems.
Ion is built on more than two decades of leadership in robotic-assisted technology by Intuitive, the maker of the da Vinci surgical system. The Ion endoluminal system allows for more precision, more reach, more stability and more answers. Hackensack University and JFK University medical centers previously launched the Ion system within the network.