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USA: NEW YORK: ROBOT ASSISTED HEART SURGERY (2)

(24 Jul 2000) English/Nat The second man in New York to undergo robotic assisted cardiovascular surgery is doing well and will likely be going home Tuesday morning - just 24 hours after his operation. The ground-breaking, closed-chest surgery was completed on Monday in three and a half hours, and has left only a few small scars in the patient's chest. The use of the robotic surgeon - which has already been used in over 250 procedures in Europe - is proven to have better precision than a surgeon's hands, and allows for one-sixth the recovery time. Hundreds of people come each year to New York's Beth Israel Medical Centre to undergo open-heart surgery - a medical procedure not without risks and a prolonged recovery time. But one lucky patient - the second one in the New York area - will be going home a mere 24 hours after his surgery, thanks to a new closed-chest operating procedure performed on him by a robotic surgeon. It is one of three such robots capable of performing closed heart surgery in the U-S. Last Thursday, Mr. Eugene Bem met his artificial surgeon - a 6 foot 5 inch, one million dollar robot named Morton. Today, after three and a half hours beneath the robot, Mr. Bem is a healthier man. SOUNDBITE: (English) "I am pleased to say that the operation took three and a half hours - it went extremely well, there were no technical problems. The device itself worked extremely well and did in fact perform the tasks that were required by it." SUPER CAPTION: Dr. Hanni Shennib, Director of Innovative Cardiovascular Therapy The robot, however, is not a thinking machine and is not in charge of the operation. It is what is known as a 'slave robot' that is controlled by two primary surgeons - Dr. Hanni Shennib and Dr. Robert Tranbaugh. It consists of two primary components: the surgeon's viewing and control console and the surgical arm unit that positions and manoeuvres detachable surgical instruments. The pencil-sized instruments, with tiny, computer-enhanced mechanical wrists, are designed to provide the dexterity of the surgeon's forearm and wrist at the operative site through entry ports less than one centimetre wide. This enables the surgeon to enter the chest through keyhole incisions and perform closed chest heart and lung surgery. One port allows access for the endoscope, a tiny camera that is attached to a fibre-optic cable. The other two ports provide access for surgical tools. Instead of the surgeon holding the tools, the robot's wrists do, providing greater range of motion than humanly possible. SOUNDBITE: (English) "You have to recognise that this is computer-enhancement technology. This is not an independent robot. So whatever surgery is performed by the surgeon at the console at distance from the patient is transmitted through a computer network to the slave robot and does exactly what it's required with a lot more precision." SUPER CAPTION: Dr. Hanni Shennib, Director of Innovative Cardiovascular Therapy The Da Vinci system, manufactured by Intuitive Surgical, Inc., is the first surgical robot to win food and drug administration approval. Beth Israel's Heart Institute successfully performed the first robotic assisted bypass surgery in New York on June 28th. The 39-year old male patient was released from the hospital in less than 24 hours - a time unprecedented in operations of this type. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...