{"id":587058,"date":"2026-04-05T12:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587058\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:53:11","slug":"robotic-surgery-breakthrough-allows-doctors-to-operate-remotely-across-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587058\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic surgery breakthrough allows doctors to operate remotely across Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A robot has made its debut in an operating theatre in what is being hailed as a major step forward for Australian medicine<\/a>, giving surgeons the ability to operate from anywhere at any time without losing their sense of touch.<\/p>\n

The Da Vinci 5 system represents a surgical first for the country, allowing doctors to scrub in with a high-tech helping hand while operating the robot remotely and still feeling everything.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNow for the first time in Australia, the robot sends a tension of the suture or the resistance of a heartstring and then transmits that sensation back to my fingertips,\u201d said Tristan Yan, a surgeon at the Sydney Adventist Hospital.<\/p>\n

But the real breakthrough is connectivity. The Da Vinci 5 system can beam specialists into operating theatres anywhere in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith telesurgery, we can also take over the system and operate from where we are to where they are with their patient,\u201d fellow surgeon Steven Pillinger said.<\/p>\n

Two years of data from the United States<\/a> proves the machine makes operating theatres around 11 per cent more efficient and decreases tissue trauma by about 40 per cent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis minimally invasive approach translates to less pain, minimal blood loss and dramatically faster recovery,\u201d Yan said.<\/p>\n

For the first time in the Southern Hemisphere, it also means distance no longer dictates care.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the problems in a vast country like Australia with a very small population [is] people who get sick often have to travel huge distances away from family,\u201d Pillinger said.<\/p>\n

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