During minimally invasive procedures, the surgeons‘ haptic information is reduced by 30 to 100 % compared to open surgery. This can limit identification of anatomic structures, cause longer procedure times and increases the patients’ risk of injury. Moreover, many minimal invasive procedures, like surgical access, are entirely blind, i.e., without imaging support – causing discomfort and stress for the surgeon. Adverse events such as the injury of organs or vessels can lead to life-threatening complications or the conversion to open surgery. Besides an increased clinical trauma and prolonged recovery time for the patient, this leads to preventable costs for the healthcare system.
Any interaction between tissue and interventional instrument causes vibrations, which propagate along the rigid instrument shaft. SURAG “listens” to those vibrations. It is a passive, plug-and-play sensing solution that provides valuable feedback information to the surgeon in real-time. Within seconds, it is attached (and removed) at the end of a standard instrument outside the patient’s body and without direct contact to human tissue. This allows the technology to be used in various applications such as interventional needles, laparoscopic instruments, or surgical robotics. SURAG provides supplementary sensory information and aims to enable surgeons to perform precise and safe interventions – for the patient’s good.
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Surgeons use standard surgical instruments from the first day of their career. SURAG with its simple plug-and-play solution would allow us to keep our instruments, but perform the procedure in a more confident way.
I started a great partnership with SURAG in early 2020. I am highly impressed by the potentials to give back the haptic perception to surgeons in minimally invasive surgery without changing surgical instrument and workflow.
Surgeons use standard surgical instruments from the first day of their career. SURAG with its simple plug-and-play solution would allow us to keep our instruments, but perform the procedure in a more confident way.
I started a great partnership with SURAG in early 2020. I am highly impressed by the potentials to give back the haptic perception to surgeons in minimally invasive surgery without changing surgical instrument and workflow.
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