Social Impact  

 

Robotic surgery is definitely gaining popularity in the surgical field. It is rapidly growing and enhancing surgery techniques for surgeons. While robotic surgery offers many advantages to society, it also offers some disadvantages.

 

Advantages to the Patients include: 
-Smaller incisions
-Significantly less pain
-Less blood loss
-Less risk of infection
-Less scarring
-Shorter hospital stay
-Shorter recovery time
(Citation 47)

Advantages to the Surgeon include:
-Enhanced 3-D Visualization
-Improved Dexterity
-Greater Surgical Precision
-Improved Access
-Increased Range of Movement
-Reproducibility
-Simplifies many existing MIS surgical techniques (Citation 48)

Advantages to Hospitals:
-Reduces inpatient hospital days
-Since robotic surgery is less invasive, patients will have fewer traumas to the body. As a result, there will be less nursing care in the intensive care unit and in the nursing unit
-Reduces the amount of staff in the 
operating room during the surgery
(Citation 49)

Disadvantages to Surgeons:
-There is an intensive learning curve that is required before a surgeon can operate using a robotic system
-Reduced tactile feedback when operating on a patient (Citation 50)

Economic Impact

 

While robotic surgery is developing, there has been some major limitations affecting its progress. 

  • The price of robotic systems is highly expensive. "Some cost up to $1 million to purchase and more than $100,000 a year to just maintain". (Citation 51) As a result, not every hospital in the world can afford this type of technology.

 

  • Adding to this dilemma,  people are concerned about upgrading these robotic systems. They have questioned about "how much the hospitals and healthcare organizations will have to spend on upgrades and how often"? (Citation 52)

 

 Political Impact

  • The political impact robotic surgery has is that it drives up the healthcare costs (Citation 53)

 

 

 

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