Robots Lend a Helping Hand to Surgeons. / Michelle Meadows.
by Meadows, Michelle; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 71Science. Publisher: Public Domain, 2002ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Chest -- Endoscopic surgery | Heart -- Surgery | Laparoscopic surgery | Medical innovations | Robots -- Surgical use | Surgical instruments and apparatusDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Robot-assisted surgery is the latest development in the larger movement of endoscopy, a type of minimally invasive surgery--the idea being that less invasive procedures translate into less trauma and pain for patients. Surgery through smaller incisions typically results in less scarring and faster recovery. It's not that robots are changing the basics of surgery. Surgeons are still cutting and sewing like they have been for decades. Robots represent a new computer-assisted tool that provides another way for surgeons to work." (FDA CONSUMER) This article presents the ways in which robots assist doctors in surgery.
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Originally Published: Robots Lend a Helping Hand to Surgeons, May/June 2002; pp. 10-15.
"Robot-assisted surgery is the latest development in the larger movement of endoscopy, a type of minimally invasive surgery--the idea being that less invasive procedures translate into less trauma and pain for patients. Surgery through smaller incisions typically results in less scarring and faster recovery. It's not that robots are changing the basics of surgery. Surgeons are still cutting and sewing like they have been for decades. Robots represent a new computer-assisted tool that provides another way for surgeons to work." (FDA CONSUMER) This article presents the ways in which robots assist doctors in surgery.
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