The increasing interest and advancements in robotic spine surgery parallels a growing emphasis on maximizing patient safety and outcomes. In addition, an increasing interest in minimally invasive spine surgery has further fueled robotic development, ...
Minimally invasive surgery has rapidly evolved from the once novel laparoscopic approach to advanced robotic surgery. In the past few decades alone, robotic systems have gone from systems which were significantly limited to full-fledged platforms fea...
Computer assisted surgery (Abingdon, England)
Dec 1, 2020
Intraoperative detection and tracking of minimally invasive instruments is a prerequisite for computer- and robotic-assisted surgery. Since additional hardware, such as tracking systems or the robot encoders, are cumbersome and lack accuracy, surgica...
Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus
Nov 26, 2020
The role of bedside assistants in robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy is important. It includes knowledge of the procedure, knowledge of the da Vinci Surgical System, skills in laparoscopy, and good communicative skills. An experienced be...
Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus
Nov 26, 2020
Initial results of the ROBOT, which randomized between robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) and open transthoracic esophagectomy (OTE), showed significantly better short-term postoperative outcomes in favor of RAMIE. However, it is...
Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus
Nov 26, 2020
To ensure safe implementation of robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE), the learning process should be optimized. This study aimed to report the results of a surgeon who implemented RAMIE in a German high-volume center by following ...
Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen
Aug 1, 2020
The number of interventions using robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is increasing in Germany, following the previous international development. Robot-assisted surgery provides some technical advantages and can overcome existing limitations of vi...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2020
A novel palpation-based tumor detection method for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) is proposed in this paper. A tactile stiffness sensor based on piezoelectric vibration is designed to detect tissue stiffness just by gentle contactin...
Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus
May 15, 2020
Robots are increasingly used in minimally invasive surgery. We evaluated the clinical benefits of robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) in comparison with the conventional open esophageal surgery. From 2012 to 2016, 371 patients wit...
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