How an emerging alliance between laparoscopic and robotic surgery has the potential to improve clinical outcomes and reduce cost in healthcare.
Robotic surgery is on a trajectory to produce ground-breaking improvements in health care access, affordability, quality and personalization in the 21st century. Surgical robotics enhances the effectiveness of a procedure by coupling information with action in the operating room in a way that transcends the physical limitations of performing surgery while still affording human control.
Using robots in surgery will benefit patients, surgeons and the healthcare system. Robots give the surgeon extreme dexterity inside the body while scaling down the surgeon’s operational movements from normal human dimensions to very small distances. In addition to improving surgical precision, these procedures have shown diminished blood loss and decreased pain than traditional methods. Patients benefit too, since robotic surgery means smaller incisions, less pain and faster healing time. And, overall the healthcare system benefits because the clinical outcomes include shorter hospital stays and reduced medical care costs.
Surgical robotics is at the forefront of medical innovation and it has the potential to deliver care that will enhance worker productivity and quality of life.
You can learn more about this promising technology at a day-long symposium on April 9, 2011 at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, when the distinguished faculty from the Engineering and Surgical Sciences of the IDEAS project present and discuss the leading advances in surgery, including:
• Robotic cardiac procedures in dynamic environments
• Haptic systems in surgical robotics
• Technologies for merging laparoscopic and robotic surgery
• Image-guided surgery
• Quality and safety in medical robots
• Simulation and game technology in medical education
• Robotics in general surgery, cardiac surgery, and urology
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