Top doctors attend international conference on robotic surgery

The symposium was held at Barco: with its state-of-the-art medical technology, it occupies an important place in the operating theatre.

Surgeon Mathieu D’Hondt shared his knowledge about robotic liver and pancreas surgery with 250 colleagues from all continents. The robot is performing more and more operations. And that helping hand is now equipped with fine wrist joints.

“When we perform keyhole surgery, we work with real instruments. If you have to place a suture with it, then you are sometimes in a very difficult position to place that suture. If you have a wrist joint, you can expand a lot of options to keyhole surgery. “

Thanks to technology from Barco

Sutures that are finer than a hair are no problem for the robot’s steady hand. To be clear: It is still the surgeon who operates the device and controls the movements of the robot arm. And thanks to Barco technology, you as a surgeon can zoom in on the work of your colleague.

“Inside the operating theater anyway”, says Leander Werbrouck of Barco Nexxilive. “The same goes for surgeons who monitor and advise from a distance. That should not happen with a delay of half a minute or even a few milliseconds. O

At the international congress Mathieu D’ Hondt also shows remarkable results. For his doctoral thesis, he studied the outcome of surgery for extensive metastases in colorectal cancer over a period of ten years. In combination with chemotherapy, that is a 76% chance of recovery.