Robotic Surgery - How it is Done and its Benefits



 Robotic surgery, also called robot-assisted surgery, allows doctors to accomplish many types of complex procedures with more precision, flexibility, and control than is possible with conventional techniques. Robotic surgery is usually attributed to minimally invasive surgery — techniques performed through tiny incisions. It is also sometimes used in certain traditional open surgical treatments.

Why it's done

Surgeons who use the robotic system find that for many procedures it enriches accuracy, flexibility, and control during the operation and allows them to better see the site, compared with traditional techniques. Using robotic surgery, surgeons can perform sensitive and complex procedures that may be difficult or impossible with other methods.

  How Robotic surgery works

 To operate using the Robotic system, the surgeon makes tiny incisions in your body and inserts miniaturized tools and a high-definition three-dimensional camera, and sometimes skin incisions are not mandated at all. Then, from a nearby console, the surgeon manipulates those instruments to operate.

 During a Robotic-assisted surgery, the surgeon “directs” the surgery from nearby, but does not stand over the patient like during traditional surgery. Though each surgery is different, here are the common procedures for Robotic-assisted surgery:

 

1)    The surgeon makes tiny (one to two centimeter-long) incisions in the body.

2)    The doctor inserts a miniature robotic instrument and a powerful camera into your body.

3)    The surgeon then sits at a nearby console in a large computer to supervise the procedure. At the console, the area of operation can be noticed as highly magnified, with excellent resolution.

4)    Sitting at the console, the surgeon directs the controls.

5)    The instruments respond to these movements and translate them into precise, real-time movements inside the body.

6)    The robotic devices, which have greater mastery and range of motion than a human, allow the surgeon to successfully perform delicate surgeries in hard-to-reach places.

 

 Benefits of Robotic surgery

 Often, robotic surgery makes minimally invasive surgery feasible.

There are many advantages to having Robotic-assisted surgery. A Robotic-assisted surgery benefits you directly by shorter recovery time—as well as indirectly by the surgeon having better visualization, leading to a more critical surgery. Some significant benefits of minimally invasive surgery include:

 

●     The surgeon has a greater range of motion and skill

●     The surgeon observes a highly-magnified, high-resolution image of the operating field

●     The surgeon has favorable access to the area being operated on

●     Shorter hospital stay

●     Less risk of infection

●     Less blood loss and fewer blood transfusions

●     Less pain

●     Faster recovery

●     Quicker return to the daily routine

 

Robotic surgery isn't a necessary option for everyone. Consult a doctor about its benefits. Robotic surgery involves risks, some of which may be comparable to risks of regular open surgery, such as a small risk of infection and other complications. Without proper training, any doctor cannot simply walk into an operating theatre and direct a robotic surgery. However, any doctor can be successfully acquainted with the Robotic Surgical System.

The author of this article is a medical health professional who successfully performed many surgeries with the help of robotics technology that assures quick healing, fewer complications, such as surgical site infection, less pain and blood loss, and shorter hospital stay and less noticeable scars.

 

 

Location: Incubator 1, Taman Teknologi Malaysia, 43300 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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