Robotic Surgery Advantages And Disadvantages

Twenty first century is the period of time when innovative technologies such as robots have developed and had a valuable impact on people’s live. Robotic technologies have prospered progressively in the last decade, so advanced technological systems are introduced in medical sphere too. Surgery robotics use miniaturized instruments such as robotic arms with high motion and precision; and one of the most widespread types of biomedical robots is the da Vinci assistant-robots. It can be said that treatment of patients with the help of advanced technologies such as da Vinci medical robotics is now quite costly and the majority of people tend to trust medical personalities instead of robots. However, despite this negative argument, there are several important benefits of robotic surgery which outweigh disadvantages. From an economic point of view, one significant limitation of treatment via robotics is that the cost of this advanced system is extremely high. For example, the hospitalization cost for robot-assisted operation of surgical removal of the gallbladder is about $8000, while

This means that medical personnels are more likely to be flexible and adaptable in the medical operations. According to Veljovich et al. (2007), there is a privilege of doctors over the robots in the surgery because surgery with robots takes much longer time to perform an operation than traditional surgery. For instance, duration of manual gynecological operation is 139 minutes, while this procedure with robot takes about 283 minutes. Twice higher time of operation leads to increase of time under anesthesia. As a result, long anesthesia may lead to potential risks for the patient as brain disorders (Perouansky and Hemmings 2009). Therefore, despite the fact that robotic surgeries are quite advanced, it takes much time which can lead to the negative