What is Robotic Surgery?
Some people envision robotic surgery as robots autonomously performing surgery on patients, as depicted in the above images.
The DaVinci Xi system responds to the movements of the surgeon at a separate console away from the operative field, as shown below. The visualization is 3-dimensional, and movements afforded by the robot are far superior over inflexible laparoscopic instruments.
Traditional laparoscopic surgery is via long, straight instruments with limited mobility, thereby compromising the operation. Surgical visualization is not as good because of the 2-dimensional screen with loss of depth perception.
Sample videos: the videos below show procedures that would be very difficult with traditional laparoscopic methods, but they are made adept with the better visualization and flexibility of the DaVinci robot.
This is an unedited video of a Robotic Cholecystectomy with the DaVinci Xi Robot performed by Dr. Brad Nichol. The patient is a 55y female with severe acute cholecystitis.
Repair of a chronic direct and indirect inguinal hernia in a 60y female. The video demonstrates that difficult hernia repairs are optimal with the Davinci Xi robot.