Evolution for Robotic Surgery – BBC

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Milan , February 21, 2015 – 13:13

     
     
 

The surgical robot evolves. The technological research has delivered the surgeon a console that allows virtually enter in the human body but staying behind a video, maneuvering simply micro-scalpels and lasers with pedals and joystick. So the robot “Da Vinci Xi” made its debut at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan (San Donato hospital group). The team’s primary urologist Francesco Montorsi has completely removed an affected prostate cancer in a 54-year old, without those side risks that a patient still agree in front of a tumor. Impotence and incontinence, for example. And virtually no trace of scarring because the tools of the “da Vinci” last generation are enough holes minimum to enter inside the patient. Prostate cancer is the most frequent malignancy among men in Western countries. In Italy are diagnosed each year about 36,000 new cases and 8,000 patients die from this disease. Many technological innovations of the new robot. Unlike the “da Vinci” in use, l ‘”Xi” is characterized by a revolutionary platform innovation that allows the surgeon full access (with minimal external incisions) in all abdominal quadrants, with a freedom of movement thanks to the extreme arms Robot that are thinner and have optical and surgical longer. Including the new laser system that allows for greater precision and optimizes the positioning of the arms of the robot according to the characteristics of the patient and the type of procedure.

Surgery ‘personalized’

In a sense, it is as if the technology was designed to get to the “personalization” extreme surgery. Da Vinci is able to plastically adapt to the different anatomical features of the patients, after having identified with an optical system from Star Wars. Pioneering new software improves the intuitiveness of use of the system by the surgeon, thus optimizing its performance. With trade in ultrafast time with the visual system. Another innovation. The camera can be inserted in each of the four arms of the robot, thus providing new perspectives for the visualization of the surgical field. Everything you see, everything you can. Montorsi explains: “The use of optical magnification in three dimensions, in high definition allows the precise identification of anatomical structures delegated to the recovery of the power and of continence, allowing the preservation”.

February 21, 2015 | 13:13

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