A robotic system for solo surgery in flexible ureteroscopy: development and evaluation with clinical users.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The robotic system CoFlex for kidney stone removal via flexible ureteroscopy (fURS) by a single surgeon (solo surgery, abbreviated SSU) is introduced. It combines a versatile robotic arm and a commercially available ureteroscope to enable gravity compensation and safety functions like virtual walls. The haptic feedback from the operation site is comparable to manual fURS, as the surgeon actuates all ureteroscope DoF manually.

Methods

The system hardware and software as well as the design of an exploratory user study on the simulator model with non-medical participants and urology surgeons are described. For each user study task both objective measurements (e.g., completion time) and subjective user ratings of workload (using the NASA-TLX) and usability (using the Sys

SUBMITTER: Schlenk C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10491575 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature