Establishment of the World's First Telerobotic Remote Surgical Service

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Objective: To establish a telerobotic surgical service between a teaching hospital and a rural hospital for provision of telerobotic surgery and assistance to aid rural surgeons in providing a variety of advanced laparoscopic surgery to their community patients. Summary Background Data: The above service was established between St. Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton and North Bay General Hospital 400 km north of Hamilton on February 28, 2003. The service uses an IP-VPN (15 Mbps of bandwidth) commercially available network to connect the robotic console in Hamilton with 3 arms of Formats: Abstract | Full Text | PDF (957K) Resources How To My NCBI Sign In * † ‡ Related citations in PubMed See reviews... See all... Remote telepresence surgery: the Canadian experience. [Surg Endosc. 2007] The role of telementoring and telerobotic assistance in the provision of laparoscopic colorectal surgery in rural areas. [Surg Endosc. 2006] First year experience of robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery with 153 cases in a general surgery department: indications, t h i d lt [Chirurgia (Bucur). 2009] Granting clinical privileges for telerobotic surgery. [Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech. 2002] [Robotic and telerobotic surgical systems for abdominal surgery]. [Rev Gastroenterol Peru. 2003] Cited by other articles in PMC See all... Laparoscopic colorectal surgery and community hospitals [Canadian Journal of Surgery. 2007]