The doctors of Canada have created history by conducting the world’s very first robotic surgery that successfully removed a brain tumour. The Calgary's Foothills Medical Centre neurosurgeons guided NeuroArm, a newly created robotic system, to take out a big tumour from the brain of a female. Patient Paige Nickason, 21, was discharged two days after the nine-hour long surgery conducted on her on Monday 12 May.    

 

Speaking about the surgery, Paige Nickason admitted she was scared but also added that she is now happy to have been a part of this historical surgery. She said that she had full faith in her doctors. The two armed robot was monitored by the Canadian doctors during the operation through remote control system and an imaging screen. Doctor Garnette Sutherland, the brain behind NeuroArm and professor of neurosurgery at the University of Calgary, has hailed it as a landmark surgery.

 

Doctor Garnette Sutherland highlighted that the NeuroArm will help enhance surgical results being less invasive and more delicate in its touch. It was also underscored that the NeuroArm has the capability of moving in smaller increments in comparison to a surgeon’s hand. Interestingly, Sutherland praised videogames for the expertise of the surgeons over controlling the robotic system.