Magnetic Surgical Instruments for Robotic Abdominal Surgery

This review looks at the implementation of magnetic-based approaches in surgical instruments for abdominal surgeries. As abdominal surgical techniques advance toward minimizing surgical trauma, surgical instruments are enhanced to support such an objective through the exploration of magnetic-based s...

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Published in:IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering 2016, Vol.9, p.66-78
Main Authors: Leong, Florence, Garbin, Nicolo, Di Natali, Christian, Mohammadi, Alireza, Thiruchelvam, Dhan, Oetomo, Denny, Valdastri, Pietro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abdomen
Abdomen - surgery
Humans
Magnetic actuation
Magnetic devices
Magnetic Phenomena
Minimally invasive surgery
Product design
Robotic Surgical Procedures - instrumentation
Robots
Surgical apparatus & instruments
Surgical Instruments
surgical robots
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Summary:This review looks at the implementation of magnetic-based approaches in surgical instruments for abdominal surgeries. As abdominal surgical techniques advance toward minimizing surgical trauma, surgical instruments are enhanced to support such an objective through the exploration of magnetic-based systems. With this design approach, surgical devices are given the capabilities to be fully inserted intraabdominally to achieve access to all abdominal quadrants, without the conventional rigid link connection with the external unit. The variety of intraabdominal surgical devices are anchored, guided, and actuated by external units, with power and torque transmitted across the abdominal wall through magnetic linkage. This addresses many constraints encountered by conventional laparoscopic tools, such as loss of triangulation, fulcrum effect, and loss/lack of dexterity for surgical tasks. Design requirements of clinical considerations to aid the successful development of magnetic surgical instruments, are also discussed.
ISSN:1937-3333
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DOI:10.1109/RBME.2016.2521818