In today's operating rooms, there are typically two to three surgeons, an anesthesiologist, and a few nurses, and even the simplest surgeries require that many people. Most surgical procedures require nearly a dozen people in the operating room. Surgical robots are all automated, which will minimize the number of operators. Looking to the future, surgery may require only one surgeon, one anesthesiologist, and one or two nurses. In this spacious operating room, the surgeon sits at a computerized console inside or outside the operating room and uses surgical robots to perform procedures that previously took many people to perform.
Using a computer console to perform surgery from a slight distance pioneered the concept of telesurgery, which is the idea of letting a doctor perform precision surgery from a distance from the patient. If instead of standing over the patient, the doctor can remotely control the robotic arm from a computer console a few tens of centimeters away from the patient, the next step would be to perform the surgery from an even more distant location. If a computer console can be used to move the robot arm in real time, a doctor in California could operate on a patient in New York. The main obstacle to remote surgery is the time delay between the movement of the doctor's hand and the response of the robot arm. Currently, the doctor must be in the same room as the patient so that the robotic system can react quickly to the movement of the doctor's hand.
The reduction of personnel in the operating room and the ability of doctors to operate on patients from a distance reduces the cost of health care. In addition to being cost-effective, robotic surgery has advantages over traditional surgery, including greater precision and reduced patient trauma. For example, heart bypass surgery now requires a 30.48-centimeter incision to be "cut" into a patient's chest. With the da Vinci or ZEUS systems, heart surgery may be performed through three incisions in the chest, each only 1 centimeter in diameter. Because the surgeon makes very small incisions, rather than one very long cut down the chest, the patient suffers less pain, bleeds less, and recovers more quickly.
The robots also allow doctors to save energy during hours-long procedures. Surgeons get tired during such long procedures, and as a result, their hands may tremble. Even the most stable human hand is no match for a surgical robot's arm. The da Vinci system is programmed to compensate for this hand tremor, so if the surgeon's hand trembles, the computer ignores the tremor and keeps the arm stable.
The advantages of the da Vinci surgical robot in treating diseases:
One, the da Vinci surgical robot has three-dimensional imaging technology, which can provide the operator with high-definition three-dimensional images, breaking through the limits of the human eye, and is able to magnify the surgical site by 10-15 times, so as to make the surgical results more accurate.
The da Vinci Surgical Robot's robot arm is very flexible and has unparalleled stability and precision, enabling it to perform all kinds of difficult and delicate surgeries.
Three, da Vinci surgical robot treatment of disease trauma is very small, do not need to open the abdomen, the surgical incision is only in 1 cm or so, greatly reducing the patient's blood loss and postoperative pain, hospitalization time is significantly shorter, conducive to postoperative recovery.