Saturday, 7 September 2013

Individual Topical Review Paper Outline

Topic: Robotic Surgery: The New Future of Surgery?

Executive Summary

This paper serves to explore the potential feasibility and success of using robotic-systems in surgical procedures. This paper will not only address the historical development of robotic surgery, but also examine the current and future advantages and challenges of the technique.

Background Information

This section will introduce the concept of robotically-assisted surgery and provide a brief explanation of its application in surgical processes. The ability of this technique in enhancing the capabilities of surgeons and overcoming the shortcomings of laparoscopic surgery will also be addressed.

Historical Perspective

The evolvement of technology in surgical processes will be touched upon here. This section begins from the major benefits introduced to the field of surgery by the replacement of traditional surgical procedures with minimally-invasive surgical methods, or laparoscopy. It then moves on to the augmentation of laparoscopy through developments in robotic surgery.

Current Situation

The current scope of application, and present advantages of robotically-assisted surgical procedures in the surgical field will be covered in this section. Current limitations will be addressed in this section too.

Future Considerations

This section explores the potential benefits and progress of this surgical procedure along with the obstacles in its development. The issue of whether those limitations can be surmounted will be discussed here as well. 

References

To be determined.

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