Surgery

Customization of a passive surgical support robot to specifications for ophthalmic surgery and preliminary evaluation.

PURPOSE: To customize a passive surgery support robot for ophthalmic surgery and preliminarily evaluate its performance.

Robotic Interventional Neuroradiology: Progress, Challenges, and Future Prospects.

Advances in robotic technology have improved standard techniques in numerous surgical and endovascular specialties, offering more precision, control, and better patient outcomes. Robotic-assisted interventional neuroradiology is an emerging field at the intersection of interventional neuroradiology and biomedical robotics. Endovascular robotics can automate maneuvers to reduce procedure times and ...

Robot-assisted pelvic and renal surgery compared with laparoscopic or open surgery: Literature review of cost-effectiveness and clinical outcomes.

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The purpose of this study was to evaluate clinical experiences and cost-effectiveness by comparing robot-assisted surgery with lap...

National learning curves among robotic thoracic surgeons in the United States: Quantifying the impact of procedural experience on efficiency and productivity gains.

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to characterize the aggregate learning curves of US surgeons for robotic thoracic procedures and to quantify the impact on ...

Near-infrared and hysteroscopy-guided robotic excision of uterine isthmocele with laser fiber: a novel high-precision technique.

OBJECTIVE: To describe a novel high-precision technique for robotic excision of uterine isthmocele, employing a carbon dioxide laser fiber, under hyst...

Vesicourethral Anastomosis in Transvesical Single-Port Robotic Radical Prostatectomy: A Technical Description and Perioperative Outcomes.

To describe the technical evolution and perioperative outcomes of vesicourethral anastomosis (VUA) in transvesical (TV) single-port robot-assisted ra...

Development of a deep learning model for safe direct optical trocar insertion in minimally invasive surgery: an innovative method to prevent trocar injuries.

BACKGROUND: Direct optical trocar insertion is a common procedure in laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery. However, misinterpretations of the abdom...

Development, External Validation, and Visualization of Machine Learning Models for Predicting Occurrence of Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiac Surgery.

BACKGROUND: Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI) is a major complication that results in short- and long-term mortality among pati...

Artificial intelligence directed development of a digital twin to measure soft tissue shift during head and neck surgery.

Digital twins derived from 3D scanning data were developed to measure soft tissue deformation in head and neck surgery by an artificial intelligence a...

Deep learning-based coronary computed tomography analysis to predict functionally significant coronary artery stenosis.

Fractional flow reserve derived from coronary CT (FFR-CT) is a noninvasive physiological technique that has shown a good correlation with invasive FFR...

Artificial Intelligence Optical Biopsy for Evaluating the Functional State of Wounds.

INTRODUCTION: The clinical characterization of the functional status of active wounds in terms of their driving cellular and molecular biology remains...

Can dexamethasone improve postoperative sleep and postoperative delirium in elderly patients undergoing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy? Protocol for a prospective, randomized, double-blind, controlled study.

BACKGROUND: Perioperative sleep disorders (PSD) are an independent risk factor for postoperative delirium (POD), which is a common complication after ...

Dr. ChatGPT: Utilizing Artificial Intelligence in Surgical Education.

OBJECTIVE: This study sought to explore the unexamined capabilities of ChatGPT in describing the surgical steps of a specialized operation, the Fisher...

Revolutionising Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Health Care System and Its Related Medical In-Transparencies.

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of medicine has revolutionised various sectors of the health care system, including robot...

Comparison of quality of life after robotic-transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery and robot-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy.

OBJECTIVES: We investigated quality of life (QOL) of patients who underwent total hysterectomy for benign uterine diseases using two surgical approach...

Starting a robotic thoracic surgery program: From wedge resection to sleeve lobectomy in six months. Initial conclusions.

INTRODUCTION: Robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is a rapidly expanding technique. In our study, we aimed to analyze the results of the process to...

Robotic docking time with the Hugo™ RAS system in gynecologic surgery: a procedure independent learning curve using the cumulative summation analysis (CUSUM).

Robot-assisted surgery has been proven to offer improvements in term of surgical learning curve and feasibility of minimally invasive surgery, but has...

Robot-assisted radical cystectomy vs open radical cystectomy in patients with bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

PURPOSE: Even though there isn't enough clinical evidence to demonstrate that robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) is preferable to open radical c...

Does previous endoscopic subureteric injection (STING) effect the outcomes of robot-assisted laparoscopic ureteral reimplantation surgery (RALUR) in children?

BACKGROUND: There is lack of evidence on the success of robot-assisted laparoscopic ureteral reimplantation (RALUR) for the treatment of vesicouretera...

Neural network for autonomous segmentation and volumetric assessment of clot and edema in acute and subacute intracerebral hemorrhages.

INTRODUCTION: Minimally-invasive surgical techniques for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) evacuation use imaging to guide the suction, lysing and/or dra...