Robot- assisted laparoscopic surgery at city hospital

● Doctors claim that robotic surgery offers many benefits to patients compared to open surgery, including shorter hospitalisation

A city hospital has introduced a new system, the Da Vinci Surgical System, in which a robot will perform minimally invasive or laparoscopic ( small incision) surgeries for oncology and advanced urology procedures. Experts at the hospital claimed that new surgical procedures are far ahead of traditional open surgeries.

According to Max Institute of Oncology chairman Harit Chaturvedi, the pressure of undergoing open surgery can be very daunting on both the patient and his/ her family. Open surgery involves a lot of pain and grief for patients with long surgical hours, prolonged stays at the hospital, blood loss and multiple other discomforts.

“The Da Vinci Surgical System will change all that. Robot- assisted surgery will also allow doctors to perform with better precision, flexibility and control as compared to conventional techniques. In fact, complicated and complex surgeries will now be easier to carry out by the introduction of this technology, especially in thoracic and gynae oncology,” Dr Chaturvedi said.

Doctors claim that robotic surgery offers many benefits to patients compared to open surgery, which includes shorter hospitalisation, reduced pain and discomfort, faster recovery time and return to normal activities, smaller incisions, resulting in reduced risk of infection, reduced blood loss and transfusions and minimal scarring.