Urology Unit, ASST Santi Paolo and Carlo, University of Milan, via Rudini 8, Milan, Italy.
Adventhealth, Global Robotic Institute, Celebration, FL, 34747, USA.
J Robot Surg. 2024 Jun 4;18(1):240. doi: 10.1007/s11701-024-01984-w.
Remote surgery provides opportunity for enhanced surgical capabilities, wider healthcare reach, and potentially improved patient outcomes. The network reliability is the foundation of successful implementation of telesurgery. It relies on a robust, high-speed communication network, with ultra-low latency. Significant lag has been shown to endanger precision and safety. Furthermore, the full-fledged adoption of telerobotics demands careful consideration of ethical challenges too. A deep insight into these issues has been investigated during the first Telesurgery Consensus Conference that took place in Orlando, Florida, USA, on the 3rd and 4th of February, 2024. During the Conference, the state of the art of remote surgery has been reported from robotic systems displaying telesurgery potential. The Hinotori, a robotic-assisted surgery platform developed by Medicaroid, experienced remote surgery as pre-clinical testing only; the Edge Medical Company, Shenzen, China, reported more than one hundred animal and 30 live human surgeries; the KanGuo reported human telesurgical cases performed with distances more than 3000 km; the Microport, China, collected more than 100 human operations at a distance up to 5000 km. Though, several issues-cybersecurity, data privacy, technical malfunctions - are yet to be addressed before a successful telesurgery implementation. Expanding the discussion to encompass ethical, financial, regulatory, and legal considerations is essential too. The Telesurgery collaborative community is working together to address and establish the best practices in the field.
远程手术为增强手术能力、扩大医疗服务范围和提高患者治疗效果提供了机会。网络可靠性是成功实施远程手术的基础。它依赖于一个强大的高速通信网络,具有超低延迟。已经证明,显著的延迟会危及手术的精度和安全性。此外,远程机器人手术的全面采用还需要仔细考虑道德挑战。在 2024 年 2 月 3 日至 4 日在美国佛罗里达州奥兰多举行的第一次远程手术共识会议上,深入探讨了这些问题。在会议期间,从展示远程手术潜力的机器人系统报告了远程手术的最新技术。由 Medicaroid 开发的机器人辅助手术平台 Hinotori 仅进行了临床前远程手术测试;中国深圳的 Edge Medical Company 报告了一百多次动物手术和 30 例活体人类手术;KanGuo 报告了超过 3000 公里距离的人类远程手术案例;中国的微创医疗报告了距离超过 5000 公里的 100 多例人类手术。然而,在成功实施远程手术之前,还需要解决一些问题,如网络安全、数据隐私、技术故障等。扩大讨论范围,涵盖道德、财务、监管和法律方面的考虑因素也是至关重要的。远程手术协作社区正在共同努力解决这些问题,并在该领域建立最佳实践。