How Do Robotic Prostate Surgeons Perform Robotic Prostatectomy?

Researchers have come up with new ways of treatments and surgeries regularly. Surgical innovation has made a lot of difference in the success percentage of surgeries. One of the most popular innovations that have taken place is robot-assisted surgery. Robot-assisted surgery is contemplated to be very effective in the case of prostate cancer surgery. The practice of robotic-assisted surgery is to eliminate the chances of error and obtain 100% successful results. Also, there are many other benefits of this surgical method over the other surgical methods of prostate removal. 

Prostate cancer can be fatal to the life of the person diagnosed with it. The surgery must be performed to remove the infected prostate gland from the body. Earlier this highly invasive surgery was performed by the surgeons and had various disadvantages. Nowadays, Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy is the most commonly performed surgery against prostate cancer. In laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, the prostate gland is removed without making large cuts in the abdomen. Key-hole size incisions are enough for the laparoscopic radical prostatectomy to take place.

How Is Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy Performed?

The robot-assisted surgery is performed unlike the traditional way of operating a prostate cancer patient. In this surgery, small incisions resembling the size of buttons are made on the abdomen rather than bigger holes. Due to this, robot-assisted surgery is known as robot-assisted radical prostatectomy. This laparoscopic surgery takes about 2-4 hours to get complete. All the specialized surgical instruments are inserted through these small holes. There is an endoscope and a camera also inserted inside. In a robotic prostatectomy, all the surgical instruments are handled by a robot, and the robot prostate surgeons are supposed to just control the robot.

This robotic surgery of prostate cancer is also commonly known as remotely-controlled radical prostatectomy. A surgeon can operate a patient from a distance also. A surgeon can be anywhere and still operate the patient through a robotic prostatectomy procedure. This surgical procedure has no complications when it is compared to the traditional highly invasive surgical methods. Robot-assisted surgery uses the Da-Vinci surgical system to operate patients having prostate cancer.

What Are The Benefits Of Robot-Assisted Prostatectomy?

The following are the benefits provided by this robot-assisted surgery:

• Robotic prostatectomy allows the robot prostate surgeons to have a clear view of cancer affected area, thus facilitating an effective performance without any error.

• This robotic surgery method involves small holes rather than big cuts which also prevents the muscles from being cut.

• Blood loss in robot-assisted prostate surgery is comparatively very less when compared to the traditional procedures.

• The less invasive technique of robotic prostatectomy helps the patient to recover much faster than the other methods. This also leads to shorter hospital stay after the surgery is complete.

• Patients don’t incur a lot of pain during and after the surgery due to small incisions. Also, a patient doesn’t require too many painkillers after the surgery ends.

• The incisions are so small that they can be dressed up with the help of Band-Aids. Also, scarring is very less after the patient recovers from the surgical wound as compared to old methods of surgery.

• The robot-assisted surgery helps a person not only recover from wounds quickly but also helps the patient to live life normally again just after 3-4 weeks of the completion of surgery.

Prostate cancer is one of the most fatal types of cancer. After reaching a certain stage, every patient has to go for a surgery where the prostate gland is entirely removed to prevent further infections and spread. Using the laparoscopic method of surgery is considered the best type of surgery when it comes to safety and success rate. The robot prostate surgeons highly recommend using radical prostatectomy nowadays.