Robo-surgery: As Safe And Capable As Human Assistant In Key-hole Gallbladder Removal
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 19:21
in Health & Medicine
Using a robotic assistant to remove a patient's gallbladder by key-hole surgery (laparoscopic cholecystectomy) is as safe as working with a human assistant, a Cochrane Review has concluded. Comparisons between robot- and human-assisted surgery showed that there were no differences in terms of morbidity, the need to switch to open surgery, total operating time, or length of stay in hospital.