Key result
R-PCI proves feasible and safe with potential benefits for both operators and patients.
Why the study?
Robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention (R-PCI) is a recent development with published data showing feasibility, safety, and potential benefits, warranting a comprehensive review.
This review highlights the feasibility, safety, and potential benefits of robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention for both patients and operators.
Should not yet change PCI practice; leaves open the need for randomized trials confirming benefits.
The introduction of robots into healthcare has brought a wealth of opportunity for technical advancements, ranging from cleaning robots to disinfect hospital rooms to the high-tech surgical robots used in the operating room. Robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention (R-PCI) has been a more recent development in the field, and is particularly revolutionary in that it serves to benefit the interventional cardiologist as well as the patient. Published data on R-PCI have shown its feasibility, safety, and more recently, its potential benefits. This review examines the current role of the robot in the catheterization laboratory, the authors' experience with the most current generation of the robot, and what is yet to come.
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Young et al. (2022) conducted a review in Percutaneous coronary intervention. Robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention (R-PCI) was evaluated. Robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention is a feasible and safe technology that offers potential benefits to both the interventional cardiologist and the patient.
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