Miscellaneous


Mayo Clinic Minute: Robotic mitral valve surgery

Jan 31, 2020

It’s surgery to repair the valve leading to the largest chamber in your heart, the mitral valve.

But for more than a decade, heart surgeons at Mayo Clinic also have performed a less-invasive mitral valve surgery, using a robot.

Patients treated robotically enjoy a more rapid recovery. And after performing nearly 1,000 of these procedures, the success rate at Mayo Clinic is 99%.
 

AI, surgical automation, machine teaching & the future of (robotic) surgery

Sep 15, 2020

Prakash Gatta, surgeon, Esophageal Surgery, MultiCare Health System

Abstract:
“Robotic Surgery” or “Digital Surgery” are now not just fanciful yet expensive tools to make us better surgeons but are now the nerve center of the OR-where this hardware (now powered by AI) is a central hub of collecting data (how good is the surgeon performing), a predictor of surgical outcomes (the “robot” calculates a higher than average Anastomotic failure (leak) rate becuase the surgeon took 40% longer than average), a teacher of sorts (providing helpful intraoperative guardrails & “lane departure warning systems” to guide the student or novice about any deviation from the gold standard operation) and ultimately (under the real surgeons watchful eye) will perform certain segments of the (anastomoses) where the complications lie.
 
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