{"id":222,"date":"2014-06-08T16:31:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T16:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=222"},"modified":"2014-06-08T16:36:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T16:36:21","slug":"now-robots-take-up-prostate-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Now, robots take up prostate surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rs 12-core Da Vinci robot is a three-unit piece which includes a remote-control console, a five-armed robot and a processing system. (Thinkstock Photos\/ Getty Images for representation purpose only)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kochi :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robot-assisted surgery has come to town and performed a procedure on 61-year-old for prostate cancer.<\/p>\n

“We used a robot-assisted procedure to remove the prostate gland and the surrounding lymph nodes using a robot called Da Vinci. While hospitals are using open or laparoscopic procedure, this method is more efficient, both for the patient as well as the surgeon,” said Dr Kishore T A, consultant urologist and transplantologist, Aster Medcity, Kochi.<\/p>\n

The Rs 12-core Da Vinci robot is a three-unit piece which includes a remote-control console, a five-armed robot and a processing system.<\/p>\n

The surgeon sits on the remote control console which senses his hand movements and translates them electronically into scaled-down micro-movements to manipulate the tiny instruments.<\/p>\n

It also detects and filters out any tremors in the surgeon’s hand which makes the surgery highly accurate and precise, say the doctors.<\/p>\n

The robotic surgery, which has been performed in some of the major hospitals in the country, is expected to become popular in the state.<\/p>\n

“We need just one nurse at the table to assist the surgeon to hand over the instruments to the ‘arm’ according to the surgeon’s instructions.<\/p>\n

“The advantage of robotic prostatectomy is that it reduces pain and blood loss, tissue trauma, a shorter hospital stay, and a quicker recovery period than a traditional prostatectomy.<\/p>\n

“You usually can return to normal activity with minor restrictions in two to four weeks after the surgery,” he said.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com \/ The Times of India \/ Home> City> Kochi \/ TNN \/ June 03rd, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kochi : Robot-assisted surgery has come to town and performed a procedure on 61-year-old for prostate cancer. “We used a robot-assisted procedure to remove the prostate gland and the surrounding lymph nodes using a robot called Da Vinci. While hospitals are using open or laparoscopic procedure, this method is more efficient, both for the patient … Continue reading Now, robots take up prostate surgery<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}