发展前进中的胸外科手术机器人

Advancing thoracic surgical robot

手术机器人已经历了三十多年的发展。目前国际上应用最广泛的手术机器人系统是达芬奇手术机器人(直觉外科公司,美国),具有设计精巧、视野清晰且操作方便等诸多优点。目前,该系统已在全世界范围内广泛应用于肺、食管、纵隔等胸外科常规手术,特别是在一些空间相对狭小的胸外科手术场景中可能优于胸腔镜手术。但目前手术机器人仍为通科机器人,不能很好地适应胸外科的手术需求和发展方向。笔者大胆推测手术机器人在胸外科领域必将向专科化、智能化、多通道发展。新的手术机器人系统必将引领胸外科手术器械的创新,更好地服务于临床并造福广大患者。

Surgical robot has developed for more than 30 years.Da Vinci surgical robot(Intuitive Surgical,Inc.USA.)is currently the most popular robotic surgical system in the world,which is characterized with exquisite design,clear vision and easy operation.At present,this robotic surgical system has been widely used in routine thoracic surgeries such as lung,mediastinal and esophagus surgeries all over the world.It may be superior to thoracoscopic surgery,especially in some relatively narrow space of thoracic surgery.However,surgical robot is still a general robot,which is difficult to meet to the requirements and development direction of thoracic surgery well.We could see that surgical robots will be developed into more specialized and intelligent with multi-channels in the field of thoracic surgery.The new robotic surgical system will definitely accelerate the innovation of thoracic surgical instruments,which would serve clinical practice better and benefit more thoracic patients.