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Robotic Surgery
The da Vinci robotic system is comprised of four principal components: a surgeon console, a computerized control system, three instrument "arms", and a fiberoptic camera. The surgeon sits at the console and views the heart (or lung for thoracic) in three-dimensions through the InSite fiberoptic stereoscopic camera system while manipulating the instinctive operating controls. The surgeon’s hand motions are relayed to a computer processor, which digitizes and relays them to the fine instrument tips placed into the chest cavity through small 1 cm port incisions. This computerized robotic system enhances the surgeon’s ability to perform minimally invasive thoracic) surgery in several ways.
First, the computer interface permits the accurate translation of the surgeon’s hand motions to a dexterous endoscopic "wrist" (EndoWristTM) placed within the chest cavity, conferring much higher degrees of freedom and precision then could be achieved with traditional hand-operated instruments. Second, the advance’s advanced two-camera stereoscopic optics provides unprecedented magnified, high-definition, full-color images of the lungs and
their structure in three dimensions. This visualization provides much greater detail of the lung than is generally possible with the surgeon’s eye.
To find out if you are a candidate for robotic thoracic surgery, please
contact California Heart and Lung Surgery Center.
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