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Dr. G. Viswanathan Hospital successfully carried retired 2 trans-continental tele-robotic surgical procedures successful some gynaecology and wide surgery, based successful Belgium and Tiruchi recently.
The 2 unrecorded tele-robotic surgeries were performed connected June 4 arsenic a collaboration betwixt ORSI Academy, Ghent University and Dr. G. Viswanathan Hospital, Mambalasalai, Tiruchi, covering a region of 9,730 kilometres betwixt Belgium and India.
The operating surgeon, Ramya Kalaiselvan, presently a advisor robotic surgeon successful the United Kingdom, performed some procedures remotely utilizing the MedBot Toumai Robot from Belgium.
The patients remained astatine the Tiruchi portion the robotic procedures were carried retired remotely with the enactment of the on-site surgical team.
The Tiruchi infirmary had installed the MedBot Toumai, a four-arm robotic surgical level designed to assistance surgeons successful performing analyzable procedures, successful May.
The web lag clip during the surgeries ranged betwixt 160 milliseconds and 217 milliseconds.
At a property gathering successful the metropolis connected Wednesday, K. Govindaraj, infirmary chairman, said, “The archetypal procedure, a tele-robotic gynaecological surgery, began astatine astir 11 a.m. IST and was completed successfully successful astir 1 and a fractional hours. The 2nd surgery, a tele-robotic near inguinal hernia TAPP repair, was besides completed successfully wrong 1 and a fractional hours. This breakthrough demonstrates that geographical boundaries are nary longer barriers successful precocious surgical care.”
The on-site surgical squad successful Tiruchi was led by Dr. Govindaraj and Dr. R. Muthuraman.
Both patients had an uneventful post-operative betterment and were discharged connected June 6.
