Benefits Of Robotic Surgery

Despite Setbacks, Why Robotic Surgery Is Still a Healthcare IT Trend to Watch

If you are hearing about robotic surgery for the first time, you are probably thinking that it involves robots replacing surgeons in the operation room. This is not quite the case. Robotic surgery involves the use of the latest healthcare IT to do minimally invasive surgical operations.

Minimally invasive operations refer to surgical procedures that use miniaturized surgical equipment that can fit through a number of incisions that a surgeon makes on his patient. The incisions are typically each quarter an inch in size.

Since the first robotic surgical procedure successfully connected a woman’s fallopian tubes in 1997, this niche has undergone significant growth.

Nevertheless, the report, published on PLoS ONE journal says these figures represent a relatively small proportion of the hundreds of thousands of robotic procedures performed every year. That notwithstanding, healthcare IT leaders must come up with new and effective safety measures for this technology to have a significant impact on the healthcare IT industry.

Do the Benefits of Robotic Surgery Outweigh the Risks?

Health practitioners agree that robot-assisted surgical procedures have many benefits for both the patient and the surgeon. These include:

The surgeon enjoys a greater dexterity and motion range

The surgeon sees live video of the operation field in the patient’s body. These visuals have high magnification and are highly magnified, resulting in greater surgical precision.

The robots give the surgeon better access to the operation area within the body of a patient.

The patient has shorter hospital stays.

The patient is at a lower risk of infection.

The patient requires fewer blood transfusions and losses less blood during the

While a surgeon might be very good at their work, if using these robots is new to him, the probability of making some mistakes during the procedure is relatively high. A surgeon experienced with using these robots is the greatest assurance you can get when preparing for an operation.

The Future of Robotic Surgery

Just last month, John, a 59-year-old man in Auckland, New Zealand became the first man in that country to undergo a specialized robotic surgery. The man, who was diagnosed with oral cancer last July, decided to undergo a robotic surgery because he believed it would be more accurate in removing the tumor and that he would have a shorter recovery time.

Just over a month since the operation and John has already resumed his daily runs. He says that he is “fit as a fiddle.”

As more healthcare IT companies and medical practitioners embrace robotic systems, here are a number of things you should expect to see:

According to Grand View Research, the global market for medical robotic systems will reach $17.9 billion by