Robotic Surgery, technology of the future in the present

The potential of robotic surgery has yet to be discovered, but surgeons know that a new path has been opened in the world of surgery. Dr. Ramón Vilallonga Puy, general surgeon and member of Top Doctors, who recently directed the Postgraduate Course in Robotic Obesity Surgery held in Canada at the XIX World Congress on Obesity Surgery, explains it to us.

The best experts in the world in the field, such as Dr. Erik Wilson from Houston or Dr. Michel Toder from Bangor, Maine, USA, among others, participated in the course. During the course, Dr. Keith Kim, with whom Dr. Vilallonga has trained, performed a live surgery from Florida (Celebration Hospital) as a sample of the potential of robotic technology.

“The robot eliminates the natural tremor and maximizes the surgeon’s precision, allows better maneuverability, a greater range of movement, a three-dimensional vision and, in addition, allows surgical access to technically very difficult places,” explains Dr. Vilallonga.

Advantages of Robotic Surgery

In addition to these advantages, there are also those for the patient after surgery: fewer postoperative complications, less postoperative pain, shorter hospital stays, smaller scars, faster recovery, less blood loss, etc.

Robotic surgery is already being used in different interventions, the improvements it brings make it more attractive for complex surgeries such as obesity surgery and revision surgery, which requires a special talent as a surgeon to perform.

The course concluded that “despite being able to provide little conclusive evidence, but with excellent overall results worldwide in obesity surgery, robotic surgery plays and will play an important role in the future”.