Sci-fi surgery as doctor in UK directs robot to remove a prostate in Gibraltar
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<p>Briton with cancer operated on by doctor located 1,500 miles away using four-armed robot fitted with 3D camera</p><p>The patient was in Gibraltar. The surgeon was in London. The outcome was a remarkable triumph for remote robotic surgery that saved the life of a 62-year-old football fan with prostate cancer.</p><p>Inside the operating theatre at St Bernard’s, the only hospital in the British overseas territory, a hi-tech robot with four arms, and fitted with a 3D
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Sci-fi surgery as doctor in UK directs robot to remove a prostate in Gibraltar Briton with cancer operated on by doctor located 1,500 miles away using four-armed robot fitted with 3D camera The patient was in Gibraltar . The surgeon was in London. The outcome was a remarkable triumph for remote robotic surgery that saved the life of a 62-year-old football fan with prostate cancer. Inside the operating theatre at St Bernard’s, the only hospital in the British overseas territory, a hi-tech robot with four arms, and fitted with a 3D camera, removed the prostate of Briton Paul Buxton, who moved to Gibraltar 40 years ago. Performing the procedure 1,500 miles away, from London’s Harley Street district, was Prof Prokar Dasgupta, a professor of urology who heads The London Clinic’s robotic centre of excellence. With the help of technology services provider Presidio, Dasgupta used a console in London to guide the Toumai Robotic System, made by Microport, through an intricate sequence of steps to successfully give Buxton a prostatectomy, a surgical removal of the prostate. The procedure went to plan with a lag of only 0.06 seconds between the surgeon in London and the robot in Gibraltar. After his unique experience, Buxton said he felt “fantastic” within days. “A lot of people actually said to me: ‘You’re not going to do it, are you?’” Buxton said. “I thought, I’m giving something back here. “I love football – we’ve gone from being in the Championship to the Champions League as far as surgeons are concerned.” Buxton, originally from Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, said it was a “no-brainer” to be involved, telling the Press Association he was happy to be the “guinea pig”. After his cancer diagnosis, Buxton had expected to join the NHS waiting list and travel to England because of the complex nature of the operation. But then he got the opportunity to have surgery remotely, and jumped at the chance. “If I hadn’t gone for the telesurgery in Gibraltar, then I would have had to have ...
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