With a concentrate on precision care, lowered hospital stays and faster recoveries, robotic-assisted surgical procedure is revolutionising healthcare, based on medical doctors in Bengaluru, who additionally mentioned it’s superior to traditional surgical procedure.
Dr Jagadish J Hiremath, founding father of the AASRA Group of Hospitals, mentioned Bengaluru, being a technology-driven metropolis, had adopted robotic surgical procedure a lot sooner than different cities within the nation. “At this time surgical procedures with hundred per cent precision, practically hundred per cent perfection are potential with robotic help… Robotic-assisted surgical procedure provides higher outcomes. Sufferers have much less ache and they can get again to work early and get again to their regular way of life,” he mentioned.
Dr Hiremath gave the instance of a polio affected person. “He grew up with a polio limb. He was working in a college and sooner or later he fell down and broke his hip. He went to a hospital the place girdle-stone arthroplasty was carried out, however it made his situation worse. Final month he got here to us and we obtained a CT scan carried out. We went for robotic whole hip substitute. That is the primary case of a robotic hip substitute in a polio affected person with failed girdle-stone arthroplasty. He’s now capable of stand by himself.”
Since June AASRA has carried out greater than 150 robotic surgical procedures, mentioned Hiremath.
Dr Mohan Keshavamurthy of Fortis Hospitals mentioned that robotic surgical procedure supplies 10 times-high magnification. “A robotic has a number of arms with seven levels of freedom. Robotic surgical procedure has 3D imaginative and prescient… Fortis Bengaluru has been performing robotic surgical procedure for the final 5 years. Up to now, now we have carried out near 1,000 procedures,” he mentioned.
If solely a portion of a kidney is affected by most cancers, that half may be eliminated utilizing robotic surgical procedure, Dr Keshavamurthy mentioned, including that robots are significantly useful in pelvic surgical procedure in males, in that they’ll attain areas the place human fingers can’t go simply.
Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Ravikumar Mukartihal of the SPARSH Group of Hospitals mentioned {that a} key benefit of robotic surgical procedure is the lowered hospital keep. “Publish-surgery, sufferers have to remain within the hospital just for a couple of days. Within the UK and the US, greater than the surgical prices, different prices because of the hospital keep and the provision of beds are what add to the bills and it’s an enormous burden for sufferers. The state of affairs is kind of comparable in India too,” he mentioned.
The associated fee will come down if robotics-specific equipment is manufactured in India, based on Dr Mukartihal. “Each time there’s a manufacturing unit that must be opened, it additionally wants assist from the coverage makers and consciousness needs to be raised…” he mentioned.
Since July, the hospital has carried out about 70 robotic surgical procedures, principally for hip and knee joint substitute, he mentioned.