Device Category Dossier

Robotic surgical system

Device Category Dossier for Robotic surgical system. Australian ARTG records, sponsors, device class — compiled by arcimedes.

Robotic surgical systems are controlled by the surgeon through a master-slave control system to manipulate minimally invasive surgical instruments , with the surgeon console allowing accurate control of laparoscopic instruments for visualisation and endoscopic manipulation of tissue including grasping, cutting, blunt and sharp dissection, approximation, ligation, electrocautery, suturing, mobilisation and retraction . These systems are intended for use in general, urologic, gynaecological and thoracic minimal access surgical procedures , operated by trained physicians in an operating room environment .