Surgeons can now perform operations on their patients while sitting at a remote site. During
telerobotic operations, the surgeon sits at a computer console. The computer translates the …

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SURGERY 24:2 Laparoscopic techniques The introduction of laparoscopic techniques in the …

Although laparoscopic cholecystectomy rapidly became the standard of care for the surgical
treatment of cholelithiasis, very few other abdominal or cardiac operations are currently …

Written by an international group of pioneering leaders in robotic and telerobotic surgery,
this state-of-the-art volume examines the feasibility, uses, capabilities, and limitations of this …

Abstract On 28 February 2003, the world's first telerobotic surgical service was established
between St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, a teaching hospital affiliated with McMaster …

Telesurgery is a form of operative videoconferencing in which a remotely located surgeon
observes a procedure through a camera and provides visual and auditory feedback to the …

In robotic surgery, all information exchanged between the surgeon and the patient is
digitized. This fundamental characteristic of surgical robotics, in concert with a booming …

Abstract Background The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved the da Vinci surgical
system for all abdominal operations in July 2000. In the past 6 years, virtually all …

The introduction of laparoscopic surgery offers clear advantages to patients; to surgeons, it
presents the challenge of learning new remote operating techniques quite different from …

After its debut in 1988, laparoscopic cholecystectomy rapidly became the standard of care
for cholelithiasis, yet very few surgeons use minimally invasive techniques for other …