A minimally invasive approach to surgery using from one to five small incisions through which specially designed instruments are inserted into the body. One of these is a tiny fiber-optic rod attached to a camera, enabling the surgeon to see what is happening inside the body on a television monitor.
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Clinical management, including medical and surgical exchanges, patient referrals, collaborative management of pathologies, telemedicine, videosurgery.
The Service website will list dozens of projects that are already up and running, including a live videosurgery link to train doctors.
Techniques have been developed over the last few years where the bypass is carried out without stopping the heart (so called ‘beating heart’ bypasses) and sometimes using videosurgery where only a small opening is made in the thorax.
Of all videosurgeries in the United States today, removal of the gallbladder - or laparoscopic cholecystectomy - is among the most commonly performed.
Our system will cost just a fraction of the price of similar commercial products and should make videolaparoscopy, and videosurgery in general, more affordable.
Definition of videosurgery in US English:
videosurgery
nounˈvidēōˌsərjərē
A minimally invasive approach to surgery using from one to five small incisions through which specially designed instruments are inserted into the body. One of these is a tiny fiber-optic rod attached to a camera, enabling the surgeon to see what is happening inside the body on a television monitor.
Example sentencesExamples
Of all videosurgeries in the United States today, removal of the gallbladder - or laparoscopic cholecystectomy - is among the most commonly performed.
Our system will cost just a fraction of the price of similar commercial products and should make videolaparoscopy, and videosurgery in general, more affordable.
The Service website will list dozens of projects that are already up and running, including a live videosurgery link to train doctors.
Techniques have been developed over the last few years where the bypass is carried out without stopping the heart (so called ‘beating heart’ bypasses) and sometimes using videosurgery where only a small opening is made in the thorax.
Clinical management, including medical and surgical exchanges, patient referrals, collaborative management of pathologies, telemedicine, videosurgery.