Published in:
01-05-2014 | Review
Review of robotic versus conventional laparoscopic surgery
Authors:
Fred Brody, Nathan G. Richards
Published in:
Surgical Endoscopy
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Issue 5/2014
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Excerpt
In 2000, the robotic platform was introduced to surgeons to take advantage of the instrument’s three-dimensional visualization and articulating wrists. Today, robotic surgery is utilized across a broad array of applications. As the number and types of robotic procedures have increased, the degree of scrutiny has increased simultaneously regarding the role of robotics in the operating room. Even mainstream media articles have focused on the widespread adoption of the robotic platform. At the present time, many reports in the scientific literature document clinical outcomes utilizing robotic techniques relative to open procedures. These reports focus predominantly on the safety and feasibility of the robotic platform. However, only a limited number of reports have compared clinical outcomes of surgeries performed with robotic technologies versus conventional laparoscopy. This review provides a summary of the recent literature comparing the clinical outcomes of robot-assisted versus conventional laparoscopic surgery across an array of abdominal surgical procedures. This article also addresses the timely issues of cost, outcomes, and overall utility of the robotic platform within these disciplines. Where there is no robust comparative cost data available, it is necessarily omitted. Otherwise, relevant cost data have been included within each section. …
