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-Josh
ROBOT PERFORMS GALL BLADDER SURGERY.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) July 13, 2000 A woman had her gall bladder removed by a robot Wednesday, one day after the da Vinci Surgical System was approved by federal regulators. website gall bladder surgery
The da Vinci, approved for use at five U.S. hospitals on Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration, enables surgeons to operate by manipulating joysticks at a computer terminal.
Lenses inserted in the patient’s body give the surgeon a 3-D view of the person’s insides.
Dr. William E. Kelley Jr. performed the gall bladder surgery Wednesday on 35-year-old Kimberly Briggs at Henrico Doctors Hospital.
”I was very pleased. I think it went very smoothly,” said Kelley, who had been trained on the da Vinci but had used it to operate only on pigs and cadavers before.
Also pleased was Ms. Briggs, who was wheeled into a news conference less than four hours after her surgery was over. ”I feel great,” she said, adding that the less invasive procedure would allow her to be home in time for her son Mario’s sixth birthday party today.
Surgery using the da Vinci has been approved only for abdominal operations in the United States, but the $1 million robot is being more widely used in Europe, Kelley said. FDA approval for da Vinci on cardiac surgery could come this year, Katz said. here gall bladder surgery
A few hospitals are conducting clinical trials of robot-assisted heart surgery.
