Joint venture in the OR

The team A minimum of eight physicians and nurses are involved in performing surgery in the OR: two surgeons, one anesthesiologist and one each circulator, one surgical, and one anesthesiologist nurse. Increasingly often, they’re joined by an OR robot. More than 5,000 Da Vinci OR robots from market leader Intuitive alone support human OR teams worldwide.

The mission Performance of ultra-precise surgery. The 2.44-meter-tall (8-foot-tall) four-armed Da Vinci costs two million euros and weighs one metric ton (1.1 short tons). The machine can perform the most delicate incisions, position drill channels for screws with millimeter accuracy, and better access difficult places than a surgeon can by working with their hands. The computerized colleague does not act alone but is operated by specially trained surgeons sitting at a console away from the operating table, viewing the surgical field on a large screen thanks to three-dimensional cameras, and controlling the robot’s arms for each individual step of the procedure.

The playing field OR robots are used in urology, intestinal surgery, gynecology, and orthopedic surgery, etc.

The benefit Patients profit from robots due to smaller incisions, better wound healing, shorter anesthesia, and therefore typically faster release from a hospital.