Robotic Surgery at Children's Hospital Boston
Hiep Nguyen, a surgeon at Children’s Hospital Boston, is pioneering new, minimally invasive surgical techniques using a surgical robot.
The surgical robot offers three-dimensional vision and articulated tips on the surgical tools that go inside the patient, allowing for smaller, finer movements than traditional laparoscopy.
To perform procedures, surgeons sit at a console across the room from the patient. The console provides a stereoscopic view inside a patient’s body. The surgeon controls the tools that top the robot’s arms via two multi-jointed handles on the console.
Credit: Emily Singer/Technology Review
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