January 28, 2004
Robotic Surgeon for Children
This is a neat article on the effects of using a robotic surgeon, in which the doctor is directing the surgury through an interface to the robot and the robot is doing the actual surgery usually through orthoscopic type devices. The advantage here is that the wound is much smaller, and typically damage to the body is less.
Their finding suggests that the minimally invasive surgical techniques made possible by the surgeon-controlled, camera-guided robot system can give the same surgical result as open-chest techniques, with less impact on the young patient’s body.
And although the study group was small, the finding demonstrates that robot-assisted surgery may be a good option for certain defects.
Neat stuff.
Posted by elkaim at January 28, 2004 2:39 PM