ReviewVisceral medicine2018
Feasibility and Usefulness of a Joystick-Guided Robotic Scope Holder (Soloassist) in Laparoscopic Surgery.
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- Robotic operations in urgent general surgery: a systematic review.Journal of robotic surgery · 2023Pooled it
- An Expertise Transfer Framework For Autonomous Surgical Assistance.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Clinical advantages of a new collaborative assistant robot (ANSUR surgical unit) in laparoscopic appendectomy and cholecystectomy.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Article
- Single-Operator Multi-Port cholecystectomy (SOMP) - technique, safety, and efficacy.BMC surgery · 2025Article
- Application and advantages of a joystick-controlled robotic scope holder in transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy vestibular approach: a comparative study.Updates in surgery · 2024Article
- A touch-free human-robot collaborative surgical navigation robotic system based on hand gesture recognition.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- A non-contact interactive system for multimodal surgical robots based on LeapMotion and visual tags.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Comparison of Short-term Outcomes of Laparoscopic-Assisted Colon Cancer Surgery Using a Joystick-Guided Endoscope Holder (Soloassist II) or a Human Assistant.Annals of coloproctology · 2019Article
- Comparative effectiveness of human scope assistant versus robotic scope holder in laparoscopic resection for colorectal cancer.Surgical endoscopy · 2019Article
- Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair with a joystick-guided robotic scope holder (Soloassist II®): retrospective comparative study with human assistant.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2019Article
- [Robotics and augmented reality : Current state of development and future perspectives].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2018Review
- Augmented Reality, Cyber-Physical Systems and Robotics: Nice to Have or a Program with Future?Visceral medicine · 2018Article
- Bridging Technology: Endoscopic Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy Using SOLOASSIST II® Robotic Arm.CRSLS : MIS case reports from SLSArticle
- Transoral endoscopic thyroid surgery using robotic scope holder: Our initial experiences.Journal of minimal access surgeryArticle
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Abstract
introductionThe Soloassist® system is a joystick-guided robotic scope holder. We evaluated the efficacy of Soloassist in laparoscopic surgery.
methodsWe investigated operative time, blood loss, set-up time, length of hospital stay, and the number of participating surgeons in laparoscopic cholecystectomy cases before and after the introduction of Soloassist. Furthermore, we evaluated these factors in each group of 20 elective and emergency cholecystectomy cases by single surgeon after matching their background. To evaluate the performance level of operating Soloassist, we divided the operative field into three areas. Then we counted the frequency of energy device activation in initially 10 cases by a single surgical resident and observed its change.
resultsThe number of participating surgeons was significantly less and postoperative hospital days were fewer in the Soloassist group. There was no significant difference between set-up time and blood loss both in elective and emergency cases. The total number of energy device activations and that in the dangerous area decreased in accordance with the experience.
conclusionConsidering our results and previous reports, the combination use of an ideal active scope holder and a commercially available 3D scope is currently considered the best approach in laparoscopic surgery. In the near future, development of active scope holders might play an important role in laparoscopic surgery.
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