Ramathibodi hospital scores Asia’s first successful brain micro surgery with the aid of a robot

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Ramathibodi hospital has successfully operated on the brain of a 77-year old patient to remove a small tumor with the aid of a robot – the first ever achievement of this kind of surgery in Asia.

 

Professor Dr Sorayuth Chamnanvech of neuro-surgery of surgery department said Monday that the 40-million baht robot was capable of conducting micro surgery, especially brain surgery, with high precision and very low error.

 

He admitted that to remove a brain tumor which is less than three centimeter in diameter by a neuro surgeon is already a difficult undertaking and the acceptable error for such a surgery is 3-5 mm.

 

However, Dr Sorayuth noted that the high-tech robot has minimal error margin of only 1 mm and, as such, it will be safer for the patient and he/she can recover faster after the surgery than conventional surgery.

 

He said that the robot is ideal in micro surgery to remove very small tumor in the brain or to treat some brain abnormalities such as Parkinson disease.

 

The advantages in the use of robot in surgery are that it reduces the chance of complications normally associated with conventional surgery and post-surgery symptoms such as paralysis, loss of sight or speeches or other disabilities.

 

Dr Sorayuth disclosed that the patient who was operated on with the aid of the robot was a 77-year old man with a history of memory loss and confusion. A two-centimeter tumor was found in his brain and he was operated on once.

 

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/ramathibodi-hospital-scores-asias-first-successful-brain-micro-surgery-aid-robot/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-05-09

 

In the Hub of medical excellence (TAT).

Glad I am no longer there then

If it fixes memory loss and confusion maybe Donald should get a scan to see if he too can be helped.

in a country that cant even solve the basic flooding issues,...OK

The hard part was not the actual surgery, but finding an actual brain to perform it on ! 

Whatever next; robocops?

2 hours ago, darksidedog said:

If it fixes memory loss and confusion maybe Donald should get a scan to see if he too can be helped.

Hard to trump that comment !!!

 

4 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

The hard part was not the actual surgery, but finding an actual brain to perform it on ! 

"Ramathibodi hospital scores Asia’s first successful brain micro surgery with the aid of a robot"

 

The words "brain" and "micro" go so well together in this context, almost made for each other.  Congratulations to the author.

Fortunately they had plenty of micro brains to practice on.