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Assessment of Robotic Telesurgery System Among Surgeons: A Single-Center Study Publisher Pubmed



Rudiman R1 ; Mirbagheri A2 ; Candrawinata VS3
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  1. 1. Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Universitas Padjadjaran, West Java, Bandung, Indonesia
  2. 2. Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine and also Research Center for Biomedical Technologies and Robotics (RCBTR), Advanced Medical Technologies and Equipment Institute (AMTEI), both at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Pelita Harapan University, Tangerang, Indonesia

Source: Journal of Robotic Surgery Published:2023


Abstract

The field of robotic-assisted surgery is expanding rapidly; therefore, future robotic surgeons will need to be trained in an organized manner. Here, we aimed to examine surgeon performance on the Sinaflex Robotic Telesurgery System for correlation with training hours spent in training program. This is a prospective study of a single-center experience at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung City of West Java, Indonesia. We included 43 surgeons from 11 departments, all invited to train using the Sinaflex Robotic Telesurgery system at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital. All study cohorts have never performed a robotic surgery procedure beforehand and have had at least five years of field experience. The surgeons were free to choose their training duration and simulation. After finishing the training session, they were asked to perform several tasks with increasing difficulty levels. There were nine training tasks in total with increasing levels of difficulty. A total of 43 surgeons from 11 different department were included in this prospective study. Our study was separated into 3 different batches and most surgeons failed to pass the examination (n = 12, 8, and 9, for batches 1, 2, and 3, respectively). The “failed” surgeon, additionally, tended to be older than the “passed” cohort (49.3 ± 7.4 vs 42.1 ± 7.3 years old, p = 0.005). In terms of duration of hours spent training on the robot, there was little difference training hours between the cohort that passed and the cohort that failed cohort (10.0 [8.4–10.1] vs 10.0 [8.0–10.0], respectively) with a p value of 0.265. We found no correlation between the total hours spent in the training program and surgeon performance on the Sinaflex robotic telesurgery system. Structured robot surgical training courses must be incorporated into the training programs. © 2023, The Author(s).