Surgery Robotics

Welcome to Surgery Robotics. As a great web resource, Surgery Robotics gathers together informative robotic surgery articles, educational robotic surgery videos, and lively chatter and conversation about surgery robotics in general. Robotic surgery is the use of robots in performing surgery. Three major advances aided by surgical robots have been remote surgery, minimally invasive surgery and unmanned surgery. Some major advantages of robotic surgery are precision, miniaturization, smaller incisions, decreased blood loss, less pain, and quicker healing time.

Further advantages are articulation beyond normal manipulation and three-dimensional magnification.

Some of the more common uses of surgery robotics are robotic Whipple surgery, robotic cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, gastrointestinal, gynecology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, radio surgery, urology, etc. At an increasing rate, improvements in both the versatility and utility of robotics in surgery is one of the bright spots in the health care industry. Thank you for visiting and supporting Surgery Robotics.

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Health and Home-HEART

It’s a world first for the London Health Sciences Centre. Heart surgeons used the Da Vinci robot to repair a hole in a patient’s heart caused by a pacemaker complication. You can see the procedure being performed by going to our /A \ Health and Home website. The hole was the result by a pacemaker lead that had perforated the wall of the heart. Conventional treatment involves open chest surgery. But using the robot, doctors were able to perform a minimally invasive procedure to pull the pacemaker lead back into place and close the hole in the heart. The patient was able to go home after only two days in hospital.
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