Robotics and Surgery

[Dock1234]

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So what percentage of surgeries is nowadays done with robots vs traditional way? Are robot surgeries already majority or is it still just small curiosity?

Do you think that in 20 years there will be any surgeries done with human hands?

 

[HighPriest]

100% of the surgery I do is sans robot. That is true for 95% of my colleagues as well, save for the few guys who are doing transoral robotic surgery - which when compared to transoral laser (no robot) carries no real benefit and is really just a marketing tool (with one notable exception). But that's just my field.

 

[VisionaryTics]

100% of the surgery I do is sans robot. That is true for 95% of my colleagues as well, save for the few guys who are doing transoral robotic surgery - which when compared to transoral laser (no robot) carries no real benefit and is really just a marketing tool (with one notable exception). But that's just my field.

TORS frenulectomy?

 

[HighPriest]

TORS frenulectomy?

Frenulum reconstruction. It's a cosmetic procedure.

 

[DarknightX]

In general surgery -

There are apparently a decent number of folks in the community using the robot for single-incision choles (driven largely by patient demand).

A few folks using it for Nissens and Hellers apparently.

@SLUser11 might be able to comment more accurately on its current use in pelvic/rectal cases.

I've been a part of the robotic single incision chole cases.

Stupid, waste of time, and I can't wait to see what the hernia rates are in 5 years.

 

[link2swim06]

If a robot can do procedures/surgery; then basically every other specialty of medicine would have been taken over by robots decades prior.

 

[vhawk]

If a robot can do procedures/surgery; then basically every other specialty of medicine would have been taken over by robots decades prior.

Why would you think this? Why is operating something that would be more challenging for a robot than problem-solving or patient management? I'm not saying you are definitely wrong, but I think you should make an argument in support.

 

[link2swim06]

Why would you think this? Why is operating something that would be more challenging for a robot than problem-solving or patient management? I'm not saying you are definitely wrong, but I think you should make an argument in support.

I mean I think the explanation is pretty simple.

It is combining both problem-solving with a technical skill. Patient management just requires problem solving. Hence why I'd expect to see a HTN managing robot before a colon resection robot.

 

[ehwhatsupdoc]

So I'm also concerned with A.I. and better robotic systems in surgery. I'm a nontraditional premed interested in general surgery. Although I know you will always need a human behind the screen for some time another three decades or so, won't there be less jobs available. If technology makes a surgeon twice as efficient than there would be less need for surgeons unless everyone starts getting plastic surgery done because it becomes that cheap.