Progress in robotic technology has led to immense advances in the field of robot-assisted surgery, the most famous example of which is the da Vinci Surgical System. The da Vinci Surgical System, established by Intuitive Surgical, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1997 and available for purchase from 2000 in the USA, is a device for performing minimally invasive operations (Hermsen et al. 2010, 822). This paper will be divided into four parts considering positive and negative impacts of da Vinci on modern medicine: the first, comfortable operating conditions having the most impact, then comfortable conditions for patients, after that an ability to operate in distant areas and finally, a high infection passing possibility.
To begin with, da Vinci is a surgical robot equipped with two instrument arms and one camera holding arm, these arms offer for surgeon not only comfortable viewing conditions of operative field, but provides surgeon’s hands with precision and dexterity (Hubens et al. 2003, 1595). According to Bodner et al. (2004, 850), high-quality 3-dimensional vision makes it easier to operate in hardly accessible for surgeon’s hands areas and to identify tiny lesions compared with conventional open surgery, where surgeon looks into a monitor. Furthermore, the robot transmits movements of a hand naturally,
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All of positive impacts have opposite aspects, e.g.: the enhanced precision is applicable for a restricted range of operations due to lack of tools variety and comfort in an operation comes out with longer operation time. However, most of da Vinci’s disadvantages have solutions, and are solved either with experience, or are expected to be solved with future