Is robotic surgery feasible and safe in general surgery at a community hospital?
Preliminary experience indicates that robotic surgery is feasible and safe in a community hospital setting, warranting future randomized trials.
Our preliminary experience at a large community hospital suggests that robotic surgery is feasible in a clinical setting. Its daily use is safe and easily managed, and it expands the applications of minimally invasive surgery. However, the best indications still have to be defined, and the cost-benefit ratio must be evaluated. This report could serve as a basis for a future prospective, randomized trial.
Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti (2003) studied this question.
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