“We are witnessing a robotic revolution in urology, medicine and surgery. Many operations that were initially performed with open surgery are now performed using robotics, which has replaced laparoscopy in many Italian centers with an extremely significant diffusion throughout the Peninsula. The progenitor was the Intuitive, the Surgical System, the Da Vinci robot. Today we are witnessing a spread of other platforms, some already on the market, others on the way, to be used in multiple surgeries, multiple robotic platforms. and, in the future also in telesurgery”. Thus Andrea Minervini, head of the Research Office of the Italian Society of Urology (SIU), explains the innovations in the surgical field on the occasion of the Siu National Congress underway in Bari until 13 October.
Telesurgery is “the possibility of operating from one’s own center even many thousands of kilometers away. This – explains Minervini – is one of the possible futures that will allow us to carry out our tasks while sitting comfortably in hospitals, in our offices but also operating on other continents”. Among the implications of this technology, “from the patient’s point of view”, it can lead to “better management of waiting lists and a series of problems”. The evolution of “robotic surgery is making operations very fast, with recovery times certainly quicker due to the minimal invasiveness and the fact that it allows us to enlarge the operating field many times and therefore pay attention to surgical details, also improving the quality of ‘intervention. This means less blood loss – lists the specialist – faster recovery and return to work in shorter times. Hospital times for prostate cancer are now 48-72 hours, increasingly trending. to 48 hours, this means – he concludes – that the patient stays in hospital for 2 days, therefore very very rapid times and this also benefits society, productivity and the national GDP”.
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