"It has revolutionized prostate surgery. It's disruptive: this will start a whole new paradigm," says Matthews, although he cautioned that the price of the machines ($1.5 million for the most advanced robotic surgeons) brings up questions about the cost/benefit ratio of such procedures.
The da Vinci Si patient cart, courtesy of Intuitive Surgical, Inc., 2009A breakthrough technology to seal surgical wounds without stitches will be developed for use in delicate brain surgery thanks to a major federal government grant. A team led by Associate Professor John Foster of the UNSW Bio/Polymer Research Group (BRG) and Professor Marcus Stoodley, a neurosurgeon from Macquarie University, has been awarded a $213,000 development grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council.
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Science, bio polymer research, Macquarie University, neurosurgery, no stitches, surgery without stitches, university of NSWCurrently, wound closure in the cranium relies on sutures or "stitches", which can lead to infections and other medical complications. "The application of SurgiLux® technology will both close and seal these wounds quickly and easily, with significant health and economic benefits," said the Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mr Mark Butler, announcing the grant.
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