Shocking! Robots can perform surgery, leaving small wounds and allowing for quick recovery?

What? Robot surgery?

Sounds like a sci-fi movie

Is that so?

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Still like this?

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Neither

Actually it is like this

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From the perspective of clinical medical applications, medical robots can be roughly divided into surgical robots, rehabilitation robots, social assistance robots, and remote robots.

You may ask, with robotic surgery, what do doctors need to do? Should they just sit around and do nothing?

It's impossible to slack off!

In fact, robotic surgery does not really mean letting the robot perform the operation fully automatically. It still relies on the doctor's control, and the doctor needs to undergo professional training and obtain relevant qualifications and certification before he can operate the robot to perform surgery .

The principle is a bit like shadow play, except that the "big boss" behind the scenes needs to have superb skills and rich experience.

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Taking the da Vinci surgical robot, known as the "king of surgery", as an example, it mainly consists of three parts: surgeon console, bedside robotic arm system, and imaging system .

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This robot is equivalent to giving doctors "three heads and six arms" and "eagle eyes and golden pupils".

The robot arm can rotate flexibly 720 degrees and can complete subtle and precise movements during surgery.

The 3D eyes, like a magnifying glass, can magnify what you "see" 10 times in high definition, and even a tiny blood vessel can be seen clearly...

Surgical robots can perform delicate surgical operations in human cavities, blood vessels, and nerve-dense areas, and are widely used in urology, gynecology, general surgery, orthopedics, etc.

Taking hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery as an example, due to the deep surgical site, insufficient space, complex anatomy and high surgical precision requirements, robotic minimally invasive surgery can be applied to liver hemangioma, liver cancer resection, gallbladder cancer, radical resection of hilar cholangiocarcinoma, complex bile duct stones, common bile duct cyst, resection of benign and malignant pancreatic tumors, splenectomy ...

But it should be noted that not all diseases are suitable for robotic minimally invasive surgery .

The doctor will decide whether this type of surgery is appropriate based on a comprehensive assessment of the patient's specific condition, the location and size of the lesion, and the patient's overall health.

Statement: This article is a medical-related educational popular science article. It does not involve specific treatment methods or medical behaviors and cannot replace hospital visits.

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