Robotic assisted surgery

Procedure description

Robotic surgery, or robot-assisted surgery(RAS), allows doctors to perform different types of complex surgical procedures with more precision, flexibility, and control than is possible with conventional techniques. Different types of computer-assisted surgical systems can be used for pre-operative planning, surgical navigation, and to assist in performing surgical procedures. At xMedClinics, we perform robotic surgery with the da Vinci Surgical System, which is a RAS device approved by the FDA. The method is not actually a robot because it cannot perform surgery without direct human control. RAS devices enable the surgeon to use computer and software technology to control and move surgical instruments through one or more tiny incisions in the patient’s body (minimally invasive) for a variety of surgical procedures. The FDA has cleared RAS devices for use by trained physicians in an operating room environment for laparoscopic surgical procedures in general surgery, cardiac, colorectal, gynecologic, head and neck, thoracic and urologic surgical procedures. Some common procedures that may involve RAS devices are gall-bladder removal, hysterectomy, and prostatectomy (removal of the prostate), nephrectomy.