Surgeon-Engineer Team Creates Procedure-Specific Module for Robotic Surgery

Physicians in training can now utilize training tools for four common robot-assisted surgeries, helping users to become proficient in these types operations and maintain patient safety and improved outcomes, according to a news release.

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Khurshid A. Guru, MD, Director of Robotic Surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and Thenkurussi Kesavadas, PhD, Director of the Virtual Reality Lab and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University at Buffalo, created Hands-on Surgical Training modules to be used in conjunction with the Robotic Surgical Simulator.

The new modules are available for four commonly performed minimally invasive, robot-assisted procedures: prostatectomy, hysterectomy, cystectomy and lymph-node dissection.

Read the news release about HoST.

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