Surgeons say the procedure, which treats benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a condition affecting more than four million men over 50 in England, has transformed care for many patients.<\/p>\n
For consultant urologist, Jeremy Nettleton, the equipment has been game-changing, allowing him to treat more patients in a day then ever before. <\/p>\n
Using ultrasound imaging, surgeons map the enlarged prostate before programming where the water jet should remove tissue. <\/p>\n
An AI system trained on more than 100,000 previous procedures suggests a treatment plan, although the surgeon makes the final decision.<\/p>\n
“Essentially it’s using a high speed pressure washer under ultrasound imaging to very accurately wash out some of the prostate tissue,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s pretty fierce, it’s up to 8,000 psi (pounds per square inch), but it’s really controlled so it’s accurate within a millimetre and I can see what it’s doing on the ultrasound. <\/p>\n
“So it’s not like unleashing a pressure washer on a patio and not knowing what it’s going to do, it’s not like that at all. It’s very controlled and it’s very precise.”<\/p>\n
Traditional surgery, known as Transurethral Resection of the Prostate (TURP), removes tissue using heat or cutting tools and can involve longer recovery times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surgeons say the procedure, which treats benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a condition affecting more than four million men…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}