The era of telesurgery: insights from ultra-long-distance Asia to Middle East human telesurgery robotic assisted radical prostatectomy.

ABSTRACT: To show the feasibility of performing human telesurgery robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) between two countries using low-latency ultra-long-distance connectivity. This study described the outcomes of performing RARP on a man in his 60's with localized intermediate-risk prostatic adenocarcinoma located in Kuwait City while the surgeon (SA) was approximately 7000 kilometers (Km) away at Toumai robotic surgical system (TRSS) headquarters in Shanghai. Operative and connectivity details were reported. RARP was performed in December 2024. There were no major clinical or technical problems encountered during the procedure. The average round-trip latency (RTL) was 181.4 milliseconds (ms) using fiber optic broadband network with 5G network as back-up. On the Shanghai end two wired broa

SUBMITTER: Aldousari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11893634 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature