Robot-Assisted Surgery: New Trends and Solutions
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 135
Special Issue Editors
Interests: liver transplantation; machine perfusion; organ therapeutics; extended criteria grafts; ischemia reperfusion injury
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Robot-assisted surgery represents a breakthrough comparable to the advent of laparoscopic surgery in the 1980s and the introduction of anesthesia.
Despite its revolutionary potential, its spreading is still uneven across hospitals and countries, and is confined to the wealthiest countries and tertiary medical facilities due to its economic burden and the need for extensive surgical expertise and prolonged training.
In the next few years, a broader dissemination of robotic surgery is expected, involving in this revolution both less affluent countries and spoke hospitals.
An increased diffusion of these facilities will allow patients to access state-of-the-art treatments, presently reserved for patients who seek care at third-level departments, but will also extend surgical indication, allowing for otherwise limited surgeries to fit and young patients.
This Special Issue aims to shed light on this revolution and how robotic surgery will spread around the country and the world. Additionally, it will explore how robotic surgery may extend surgical indications in minimally invasive surgery, which new devices will be developed, how they will be used in a robotic setting and how tutoring and teaching will change.
In conclusion, we will attempt to analyze how the repercussions of this paradigm shift will impact the daily lives of healthcare workers and patients.
Dr. Davide Ghinolfi
Dr. Felipe Boff Maegawa
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Life is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- robotic surgery
- minimally invasive abdominal surgery
- minimally invasive liver surgery
- minimally invasive pancreatic surgery
