Department of Cardiac Surgery, Fundacion Clinica Shaio, Bogotá, Colombia.
Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Braz J Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Dec 1;35(6):990-993. doi: 10.21470/1678-9741-2020-0064.
In developing countries, limited resources and low health budgets result in slow developments in the field of cardiac surgery. As a consequence, advances in surgery become a challenging process. In Colombia, most institutions do not have the capacity or infrastructure for minimally invasive and video-assisted cardiac surgery, let alone robotic assisted cardiac surgery (RACS). Despite the challenges, efforts to overcome these hurdles are critical for the future of cardiac surgery in low-income settings. Here we describe the first cases of robotic cardiac surgeries performed in Colombia.
在发展中国家，有限的资源和低健康预算导致心脏外科学领域的发展缓慢。因此，手术的进步成为一个具有挑战性的过程。在哥伦比亚，大多数机构都没有微创和视频辅助心脏手术的能力或基础设施，更不用说机器人辅助心脏手术（RACS）了。尽管存在挑战，但克服这些障碍的努力对于低收入环境中的心脏外科学的未来至关重要。在这里，我们描述了在哥伦比亚进行的首例机器人心脏手术。
