Medical Robotics

Introduction

P. Gomes,     Cambridge Consultants, UK

Surgeons continuously push barriers to develop surgical procedures and techniques which result in patient benefits and better clinical outcomes. As the trend towards minimally invasive surgery (MIS) increases, surgery becomes more technically demanding for surgeons and more challenging for medical device technologists. It is clear that robotics has now an established foothold in medicine as an enabling technology for MIS as this book demonstrates. Written by both medical practitioners and engineers, the book covers a wide range of clinical applications: laparoscopy, gastrointestinal, neurology, cardiovascular, otorhinolaryngology, vitreoretinal, urology, orthopaedics. Commercially available ...