The Route to Patient Safety in Robotic Surgery

• Main Authors: Grespan, Lorenzo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Fiorini, Paolo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Colucci, Gianluca (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 126
• Subjects: Robotics.; Automation.; Artificial intelligence.; Surgery.; Robotics and Automation.; Artificial Intelligence.

The introduction of a new technology in a consolidated field has the potential to disrupt usual practices and create a fertile ground for errors. An example is robotic surgery that is now used in most surgical specialties, pushed by technology developers and enthusiastic surgeons. To analyze the pot...