Healthcare IT News December 29, 2023
Robotic-assisted bronchoscopy enables doctors to perform minimally invasive biopsies in distant areas of the lungs, including small nodules in the peripheral regions.
Doctors at Englewood Health in New Jersey are using the Ion endoluminal system from Intuitive Surgical to take tissue biopsies from the hard-to-reach outer third of the lung to identify early-stage lung cancer.
WHY IT MATTERS
Robotic-assisted bronchoscopy offers stability and greater precision over traditional bronchoscopy, according to Dr. David Shiu, chief of pulmonary medicine at Englewood Health.
“With this technology, we can access lung lesions that were previously unreachable with standard bronchoscopy techniques,” he said in a statement on the health system’s website.
The tool’s maneuverable catheter has an integrated vision probe that provides real-time visualization...
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