A robot surgeon to intervene in the pancreas

Laparoscopic surgery can be performed in the pancreas and with the help of a robot in a safe and effective, expanding the surgeon's freedom of movement without the need for open intervention.
This emerges from a study published in the Archives of Surgery ', which has reviewed the cases of 30 patients undergoing this procedure. Laparoscopic interventions have the advantage of being less invasive than open surgery, but reduce the potential return of the surgeon in a body that requires special skill and the Robos in the surgery .

According to the authors of the report, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh (http://www.medschool.pitt.edu/) (U.S.), laparoscopy has some problems: "It limits the range of motion of instruments, impoverishes the ergonomics of surgeon, depends on two-dimensional images and reduces the skill. " However, the use of the robot can overcome these barriers without resorting to more invasive forms of surgery, according to study results and the Robos in the surgery ..

Robos in the surgery

The pancreas was an organ that traditionally resisted minimally invasive interventions, because it has two major complications: bleeding from blood vessels and reconstruction of the ducts of the liver and pancreas and the Robos in the surgery .

The new data relate to patients who are partially removed the pancreas between October 2008 and February 2010, and the results of mortality and serious complications are consistent with what would be expected if they had been involved with open surgery. The difference is that the patients gained quality of life and postoperative time was shortened, as expected of a less invasive procedure and the Robos in the surgery .

Robot 'Da Vinci'

In exchange, the use of robot, a model of the company Da Vinci Intuitive Surgical, has two disadvantages: it takes longer to perform the procedure and is more expensive. It is hoped, in any case, future studies with more patients to confirm the advantages of using the robot associated with laparoscopy, while the technology could evolve and reduce the time needed to assemble the robot in the operating room now is among the half-hour and 45 minutes.
Robot-assisted surgery is becoming increasingly popular for U.S. patients and even advertised on local television, as he recalled in a commentary accompanying the report, Dr. Martin A. Makary, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Its benefits include "less postoperative pain, lower infection rates, reduced physiological stress" and others, as this author, but he insists on remembering that "technology does not compensate for the lack of practice of a surgeon and the Robos in the surgery .."

Although it began being used especially in urological and gynecological disorders, is increasingly common to use robots in other types of operations. Emilio Vicente, Head of Service of General and Digestive Surgery, University Hospital Madrid Sanchinarro, highlights of this technique "the accuracy of the procedure, excellent vision with which we work and the possibility of using fully articulated surgical material." It also allows the surgeon to "movements that take place just as in open surgery."

Coping with diabetes

On 14 November is an important date for diabetics. World Day against metabolic disease is celebrated on this day since 1991, when the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Diabetes Federation recognized the need to speak out against the dangers of disorder that people are increasingly being .
The celebration commemorates the birthday of Frederick Banting, whose investigations were, along with Charles Best, key to the discovery of insulin, since 1922, has saved the lives of millions of diabetics.
The silent epidemic of diabetes already affects some 250 million people worldwide and forecasts for the future are not very hopeful: if the trend is not reversed and obesity and overweight are still rampant on the planet, less than a generation the number of cases, especially type 2 diabetes, what is related to unhealthy habits, could be much higher Coping with diabetes .

Coping with diabetes

The problem, according to the WHO, is particularly worrying in developing countries where the disease spreads rapidly. Almost 80% of deaths because of this disorder occur in these countries.

In Spain, according to the Diabetes Foundation, the number of affected about 2.5 million and a half, but could have a significant number of undiagnosed individuals unfamiliar with the disease Coping with diabetes .
'Take control of diabetes, now' is the slogan of this year, which emphasizes the need to get to know better manage the disease and prevent complications in the future.

Diabetes

In this sense, the experts stress the importance of regular checkups to prevent the onset of the disease and should develop, consult endocrinologists and diabetes educators on how best to cope.