WELCOME TO HEAD & NECK ROBOTIC SURGERY IN THE H&N

Robotic Surgical Systems in Spain

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.