Rosie the Robot, from the old cartoon, set in the future, The Jetsons, was (thankfully) never asked to give a robotic surgery for prostate cancer to Little Elroy. Would you believe that in real life that is happening now? Once you get passed the headlines, you realize it’s not as outlandish as it seems. The doctor works with high tech machinery to aid him with the surgery.
Non-robotic prostate surgery is a significantly more invasive operation. Patients usually rate their experience with the robotic prostate procedure favorably. You can expect to see a lot more of these procedures.
You may be surprised to learn that robotic assisted surgery is hardly a new phenomenon. In fact, it’s not unusual for a surgeon to have performed thousands of these operations, starting in the 1990′s. (The earliest robotic assisted operation was in 1985.)
The robot’s name is the da Vinci system. It is able to get the job done without the need to cut open the patient, as is protocol in most operations. Instead, four rather small holes are made, allowing small tooled probes and a camera to go in and operate.
The sturdiest human hand has micro tremors, but the da Vinci system compensates, creating tremor free execution. Combined with the better than naked eye vantage point of the camera, and the precision tools, tissue from nearby areas is left unmolested.
The amount of blood that is lost in this procedure is so much less than normal, the operation has been referred by some people as, “the bloodless prostate surgery.” There are similar improvements in recuperation time and discomfort levels.
Other patient-pleasing benefits of this procedure, over the open prostate surgery, is the usual ugly scar is not a factor. There are only four little, round pocks. The normal method has a some rather displeasing side effects that the newer surgery doesn’t induce. There’s no mystery as to why minimally invasive procedures consistently receive more positive patient feedback.
Here is something you would not expect to see from patients of the traditional, open prostate procedure: Some patients literally walk out within hours. Most patients are home within 24 hours.
Robotic surgery for prostate cancer is not the only surgery of its kind. There are similar operations done in the fields of; General surgery, Cardiothoracic, Cardiology, Electrophysiology, Gastrointestinal, Gynecology, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pediatrics and Urology.
So what about Rosie the Robot? Is she ever going to get a chance to perform surgery? If you look at all the advancements that have been made in your lifetime alone, it might be wise not to bet against her. Just a handful of years ago, May, 2006, a robotic system that is now known as, “the first artificial intelligence doctor, ” performed a surgery, under its own control, on a guy in his mid 30′s who had a case of heart arrythmia.
The surgery was rated to have a better outcome than most human surgeons. The designer said that due to the database of ten thousand similar surgeries it had to learn from, it was more than prepared for the job. Indeed, the designer predicts that within the next ten to fifteen years, half of surgeries will be done by unassisted robots.
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