Robotic Surgery

The concept of robotic surgery at its base is a robot performing surgery on a patient instead of the surgeon doing it directly. Robotic surgery is being performed in select hospitals around the world that have acquired the resources needed to purchase and maintain the robots. It will primarily be used to perform surgery on wounded soldiers in foreign lands. The doctor will be unable or unwilling to get to the soldier and will instead perform the surgery through a console that is in another location. The professionals that are present during the operation would anesthesiologist, a nurse, an assistant, the surgeon, and possibly another assistant. Robotic surgery equipment is used for gynecologic, cardiac, colorectal, general, head and neck,

The chest, joints, and abdomen were impossible to work on and operation on the abdomen was almost always fatal. Finally, a dentist named William Morton started using ether gas that negated pain in the patient. It became the standard in all surgery and allowed surgeons to operate with a much higher success rate. Sepsis was the primary issue after that. Antiseptic practices like washing hands and cleaning operating rooms became commonplace and allowed surgery to move forward. Laparoscopic surgery is a relatively new form of minimally invasive surgery. A small incision is made with a camera and instruments inserted into it; then surgery is performed without the organs being exposed to the open air. This minimizes risk of infection and does not debilitate the patient with large scars and wounds. Laparoscopic surgery began in 1910 by a Swedish doctor which revolutionized surgery forever. Robotic surgery is also a relatively new field of surgery. Beginning with the Puma 560 in 1985, robotic actually started out working on neurosurgical biopsies and resections of the prostate. The PROBOT and ROBODOC were slightly later models worked on specifically transurethral resections and hip replacements respectively. The robots have since become much more advanced and digital than they started out

It was a retrospective cohort study that had observational groups in all 3 of the types of the procedures. Samples that were taken from the operation ps by the Da Vinci robot or surgeons were analyzed to determine effectiveness and success of the procedure. Operation time and blood loss was also taken into account to determine operation success. According to p-value analysis of the variables nodes removed, operative time, blood loss, length of hospital stay, and complications: nodes removed had a significant difference, operative time had a significant difference, blood loss had a significant difference, length of stay did not have a significant difference, and complications were very significant. In conclusion, the robotic surgery had the least blood loss, shortest hospital stay, and most nodes removed out of the 3 procedures. The open surgery had the shortest operating time and considerably more complications. Laparoscopic surgery was usually in the middle of values between traditional surgery and robotic surgery. Robotic surgery had the most wins in the categories measured which would make it the winner according to this study. However, there are some weaknesses to this study. There was a lack of randomization of operations analyzed and the researchers were unable to examine long term oncologist