Pre‐clinical remote telesurgery trial of a da Vinci telesurgery prototype
- 22 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery
- Vol. 4 (4), 304-309
- https://doi.org/10.1002/rcs.210
Abstract
Background The objective of this study was to perform a pre-clinical remote telesurgery trial of a da Vinci® telesurgery prototype on a surgical-grade virtual private network. Methods A da Vinci telesurgery-enabled prototype was used to conduct surgical trials across a 17 MB/s bandwidth VPNe network spanning 2848 km round-trip landline distance from London, Ontario, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The outcomes measured during the trial were surgical times and quality of anastomoses. Results Network configuration resulted in observed latencies of 370 ms with 140 ms due to transport delay. The da Vinci telesurgery prototype performed well subjectively and average porcine pyeloplasty anastomotic times were 20.7 ± 4.7 min. Conclusions This work constitutes an early evaluation of the da Vinci telesurgery prototype for conceptually remote telesurgical operations. This study clearly demonstrated the feasibility of remote telesurgery using the da Vinci platform to perform a complex surgical task. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Keywords
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