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Sikh-American Surgeon A Pioneer In Robot-Assisted Surgeries:
Indianapolis’ Kirpal Singh
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Sikh-American surgeon Kirpal Singh has been training his peers in robotics-assisted surgery as part of a programme that draws surgeons from all over the United States.
Dr Kirpal Singh, a surgeon at St Vincent Indianapolis Hospital in Indiana, USA, has so far performed about 450 operations using the $2 million da Vinci robot.
He is the driving force behind the Surgery 101 programme of the Indianapolis hospital, which is an epicentre of training in robotics-assisted surgery.
He started using the robot for surgeries about three years ago.
"The robot is a tool to do more efficiently and safely the same thing that we did before," he said.
He explains, however, that trainees are not allowed to participate in any of the actual surgeries.
Some of the benefits of robotics-assisted surgery include smaller incisions that significantly lower the chance of wound infections; shorter post-surgical hospital stays; and a significantly reduced chance of developing a hernia post-surgery, he said.
September 4, 2015
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1: Aryeh Leib Lerner (Israel), September 08, 2015, 1:18 PM.
A wonderful contribution. Talk about being at the cutting edge of The Cutting Edge!