Robotic Surgery in Adult CTVS (Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery)

Robot-assisted cardiac surgery is a minimally invasive cardiac surgery. Surgical robots have enhanced the ability and precision of surgeons. Consequently, technological advances have facilitated heart surgery through miniature cameras & precision robotic devices. Robotic cardiac surgery, allows surgeons to operate through small cuts without making large incision or cutting through ribs during cardiac surgery.

Thus, repairs for structural heart conditions, including mitral valve plasty, atrial septal defect closure, multivessel minim ally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting (MIDCAB), and totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), can be totally endoscopic.

The significant advantages of minimizing surgical trauma, such as reduced pain, shorter hospital stays, faster return to normal activities, and improved cosmesis, have resulted in the development of minimally invasive robotic surgery.

Conventional heart surgery requires surgeons to open up the chest to access the heart for surgery. This approach requires cutting through and opening up the rib cage, necessitating a very large incision and causing a lot of surgical damage to the chest.

With a robotic approach, surgeons don’t have to cut through the chest & ribcage. Instead, surgeon slip the instruments through small incisions between the ribs. This reduces the risk of post-surgical complications like infections and blood loss, dramatically reduces scarring, requires shorter hospital stays and allows for a much faster return to normal day-to-day activities. Patients also tend to experience much less pain during their recovery, because they’re not healing from a broken breastbone.