Robotic Surgery: A Concern or Innovation?

As technology improves robots performing task in the medical has become a familiar sight, but not everyone is on board with the thought of a robot performing or assisting surgery. Then this brings the question should patients be more concerned for their safety when getting operated on by a doctor or a robot? There haven’t been many cases of robotic surgery killing or severely injuring a patient. Plus the cost of robotic surgery is not costly. Still traditional open cut surgery gives faster recovery times. So should patients have more concerns about robotic surgery than traditional?

Robotic assisted surgery is surgery that allows doctors to perform many types of complex procedures with more precision, flexibility than is possible with conventional techniques. Robotic surgery is associated with minimally invasive surgery and procedures performed through tiny incisions. This is like giving the doctor an extra tool to

This is an advantage since there were few minimally invasive surgeries until the robotic assistance came along. This helps operations like prostate removal, and complex cancer surgeries. Myriam Curter the medical adviser of Intuitive Surgical says that "The system brings the most value when the procedure would otherwise be open.” The less more precise cuts the robot can manage to do on the patient and prevent the amount of blood loss the patient has to suffer. This can then help the patient recover faster. During a open cut surgery it is not uncommon for a patient to lose 600 cc to 1000 cc during the surgery. But during robotic assisted surgery a patient can lose only 200 cc or less which is very minor and brings no need for a blood transfusion. This step over the reports that surgeon Marty Makery made about robotic assisted surgery had no advantages that traditional surgeries didn’t