Preparing a child for surgery is a stressful experience, but a pediatric surgeon in MD specializes in taking care of children. Not only do they train for the actual procedures in medical school, during residencies, and during fellowships, pediatric surgeons specialize in children. They know the size of a child's kidney and the best point in a child's life to repair pectus excavatum--a concave chest.
As medical technology improves, many surgeons are using as many minimally invasive surgery procedures as possible. The goal of a minimally invasive surgery is to do the internal repair by refraining from harming the surface of the body. This is not possible for all surgeries, but it is becoming widely used by many doctors.
The positive aspects of these operations are numerous. The small incisions are less painful, reduce scarring, and promote faster recoveries that result in shorter stays in the hospital. Being that the incisions are much smaller, it also creates less trauma for each patient.
How is this possible? During the surgeries, the doctors have robots that assist in the actual procedure. They manually control the robots movements and direct the actions taken. The robotic assistance is not put into autopilot. Each patient is still very much under the care of their surgeons. The use of robots improves each provider's visualization by giving them a magnified view of the area in 3D and high definition while giving them better precision and control as well as dexterity.
Each patient who experiences a minimally invasive surgery will also experience less infection, less anesthesia, and less blood loss. These procedures are not only exciting for the healthcare team but also for parents and for the patients themselves. Knowing that a child will not be under anesthesia for a lengthy procedure gives parents some relief. A patient who knows he or she will be in just a small amount of pain as opposed to a long recovery reduces the amount of stress in each one's heart.
One type of robotic assistant is the da Vinci. This robot makes is possible to make small incisions and insert a camera for the surgeon to observe an entire view of the procedure. The da Vinci obeys commands given by the doctor who simulates the movements he would be performing. The da Vinci is unable to perform these tasks without someone at the control, and this gives the healthcare team accuracy without large surgical wounds to care for.
Not every patient is a good candidate for minimally invasive surgery, and each case must be evaluated carefully. Each child is an individual with different needs, and the best pediatric care team considers those needs deliberately.
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