McSleepy meets DaVinci

In a world first, a completely robotic surgery and anaesthesia has been performed at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). The DaVinci surgical robot, which lets surgeons work from remote locations, was put to work this summer, whereas the anaesthesia robot, nicknamed McSleepy, has been providing automated anaesthesia since 2008. The two combined to perform the first all-robotic surgery on a prostatectomy patient at the Montreal General Hospital...

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