Robotic Surgery: Standard Coding Describes High Tech Approach
Friday, October 23rd, 2009The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first fully-robotic surgery device, the da Vinci® surgical system, in early 2000. In recent years, robotic surgery—technically called laparoscopic robotic-assisted surgery—has revolutionized minimally invasive surgery (MIS).
Robotic-assistance has been adopted by several surgical specialties for complex procedures, such as mitral valve repair, Roux-en-Y, prostectomy, hysterectomy, sacral colpopexies, coronary anastomosis, nephrectomy, and others.