A team has developed a plastic surgical field expansion plate that can help surgeons during robot-assisted heart surgery.
Robot-assisted heart surgery usually requires an assistant at the operating table to help the surgeon insert the robot arm through a small incision. The assistant has to constantly make sure the surgeon has enough room to operate via the robot arm. For greater independence on the surgeon's side, an Osaka Metropolitan University-led group has developed a device that can secure the surgical field.
When the polyether ether ketone plate is fastened into a circular shape, it expands to a certain size and retains its shape, securing the surgical field. The plate is 0.4 millimeters thick with varying widths and lengths available depending on the requirements of the surgery. Robot-assisted surgery used to perform bladder cancer removal and reconstruction enables patients to recover far more quickly and spend significantly less time in hospital, concludes a ...
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