Robot Used to Perform Surgery Inside an Eye

Healthcare innovation is happening all over the world. A Dutch company has developed a surgical robot for performing complex and intricate surgery inside the human eye. A man in Oxford, United Kingdom was the beneficiary of the first ever robot surgery using the new system. The new Precedes Surgical Robot is able to handle very delicate procedures which require great […]

Is Remote Robotic Surgery Practical?

Last summer, I experienced a robot assisted radical prostatectomy. I wrote about the experience and follow-on treatment in Health Attitude. I was on the operating room table, and the surgeon was across the room, sitting at the console of the da Vinci robotic surgical system console. Another surgeon, an anesthesiologist, and nurses were at the operating […]