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FLORetina: 2017

Robotics in Vitreoretinal Surgery

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There are three approaches to eye surgery using robotics and Marc D. de Smet, MDCM, PhD, FRCSC, FRCOphth, DABO, FMH, focuses on the one that he had a hand in developing, called telemanipulation. Dr. de Smet discusses advantages of the approach, including tremor filtering, rapid instrument exchange, and positional stability and memory, and shares a vieo of the first internal limiting membrane peeled in a human using a robot.

Posted: 4/27/2017

Robotics in Vitreoretinal Surgery

There are three approaches to eye surgery using robotics and Marc D. de Smet, MDCM, PhD, FRCSC, FRCOphth, DABO, FMH, focuses on the one that he had a hand in developing, called telemanipulation. Dr. de Smet discusses advantages of the approach, including tremor filtering, rapid instrument exchange, and positional stability and memory, and shares a vieo of the first internal limiting membrane peeled in a human using a robot.

Posted: 4/27/2017


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