Surgery

Machine Versus Man: Can Robotic Mops Clean to Lead Safety Standards?

This study compared the effectiveness of using a commercially available robotic mop versus hand mopping as the second step of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s recommended three-step vacuum–mop–vacuum process to remove lead dust debris from residential floors. A total of 1,703 floors were cleaned using the robotic mop. Lead dust wipe tests from these floors were compared with ...

Design and validation of an MR-conditional robot for transcranial focused ultrasound surgery in infants.

PURPOSE: Current treatment of intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) involves cerebral shunt placement or an invasive brain surgery. Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) applied to the brains of pediatric patients presents an opportunity to treat IVH in a noninvasive manner, termed "incision-less surgery." Current clinical and research focused ultrasound systems lack the capability to ...

Technical Note: Unified imaging and robotic couch quality assurance.

PURPOSE: To introduce a simplified quality assurance (QA) procedure that integrates tests for the linac's imaging components and the robotic couch. Cu...

Neural networks improve brain cancer detection with Raman spectroscopy in the presence of operating room light artifacts.

Invasive brain cancer cells cannot be visualized during surgery and so they are often not removed. These residual cancer cells give rise to recurrence...

Prophylactic Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy for Preoperative Suspicion of Prostate Cancer: Experience with 55 Cases.

BACKGROUND/AIM: Expanded indications are not yet reported for robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RARP) performed by experienced surg...

A retrospective study to validate an intraoperative robotic classification system for assessing the accuracy of kirschner wire (K-wire) placements with postoperative computed tomography classification system for assessing the accuracy of pedicle screw placements.

This purpose of this retrospective study is validation of an intraoperative robotic grading classification system for assessing the accuracy of Kirsch...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Comparing Cadaveric Liver Transplant and Non-Transplant Surgical Patients.

Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a frequent complication in intensive care surgical patients, particularly those with high severity scores on admiss...

[Robotic mitral valve repair: perioperative and seven-year follow-up results].

OBJECTIVE: To summarize surgical experience during the conduction of robotic mitral valve repair and evaluate the long-term follow-up results.

Bailouts to LIMA Damage for Avoiding Conversion in Minimal Access Coronary Procedures.

Minimally invasive and robotic coronary revascularization strategies offer less pain, fewer adverse events, better cosmesis, and speedier recovery. Th...

Using a Checklist in Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy Procedures.

Robotic surgical systems are relatively new in New Zealand and have been used mainly for laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. Checklists are successful...

Robotic-Assisted Simple Prostatectomy: An Overview.

Despite widespread use of medical therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia, a need remains for robust surgical therapy in select patients. Robotic-ass...

Assistive Device for Efficient Intravitreal Injections.

Intravitreal therapy is the most common treatment for many chronic ophthalmic diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration. Due to the increasin...

Navigation of a robot-integrated fluorescence laparoscope in preoperative SPECT/CT and intraoperative freehand SPECT imaging data: a phantom study.

Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery is becoming an established technique for prostatectomy and is increasingly being explored for other types of cance...

Simulation of fluid environment using a robotic orthosis on human lower extremity for therapeutic purposes.

Rehabilitation under water is a viable physical rehabilitation option, but it has some limitations in terms of adapting to needs of each patient. In a...

A wearable robotic orthosis with a spring-assist actuator.

This paper introduces a wearable robotic orthosis with spring-assist actuators, which is designed to assist people who have difficulty in walking. The...

Metabolic cost of level-ground walking with a robotic transtibial prosthesis combining push-off power and nonlinear damping behaviors: preliminary results.

Recent advances in robotic technology are facilitating the development of robotic prostheses. Our previous studies proposed a lightweight robotic tran...

Robot-assisted retinal vein cannulation with force-based puncture detection: Micron vs. the steady-hand eye robot.

Retinal vein cannulation is a demanding procedure where therapeutic agents are injected into occluded retina veins. The feasibility of this treatment ...

Towards synergistic control of hands-on needle insertion with automated needle steering for MRI-guided prostate interventions.

A significant hurdle of accurate needle tip placement in percutaneous needle-based prostate interventions is unmodeled needle deflection and tissue de...

Robot-assisted microsurgical forceps with haptic feedback for transoral laser microsurgery.

In this paper, a novel, motorized, multi-degrees-of-freedom (DoF), microsurgical forceps tool is presented, which is based on a master-slave teleopera...

Combining a hybrid robotic system with a bain-machine interface for the rehabilitation of reaching movements: A case study with a stroke patient.

Reaching and grasping are two of the most affected functions after stroke. Hybrid rehabilitation systems combining Functional Electrical Stimulation w...