Posted Jul 1, 2024
Updated Jan 23, 2026
The first surgical system to arrive in the country was a da Vinci Standard (1st generation) in 2004 at the Puigvert Foundation in Barcelona. Curious about the others? Check out the year-by-year chronology.
da Vinci & more
TORS program
This doesn’t mean that every hospital with a robotic surgery system started a TORS program. In fact, until 2012, robotic head and neck surgery wasn’t even considered in the the new surgical schedules. The introduction of TORS in Spain progressed quite slowly. However, 2022 was a critical year. Check out the timeline.
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- Set-up for TORS with the da Vinci X (Avila) May 26, 2025
- El Hospital Central de la Defensa Gomez Ulla inicia su programa de Cirugía Robótica Transoral June 21, 2024
- Performance of a Multidisciplinary Robotic Surgery Program (HU Rey Juan Carlos) Oct 9, 2023
- La cirugía robótica transoral se expande en Madrid (HU Ramón y Cajal) June 19, 2023
- La Fundación Jiménez Díaz inicia su programa de Cirugía Robótica TransOral (TORS) May 16, 2023
- Galicia a la cabeza en programas de Cirugía Robótica Transoral en hospitales públicos Jul 2, 2022
- Primer programa de Cirugía Robótica TransOral de Galicia en el CHUS Feb 12, 2022
Updated July 1, 2023