CUHK and overseas medical teams perform telesurgery with locally made surgical robots
發佈日期: 2025-07-18 21:05
TVB News
The Chinese University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Medicine has teamed up with medical teams from Shanghai and the U.K. to perform an intercontinental telesurgery on a pig model, using locally developed surgical robots.
The CUHK medical school said the procedure proved the reliability and safety of telesurgeries, and stressed it will strengthen international medical exchange.
The landmark telesurgery, which took place on Thursday afternoon at the Science Park's Medical Robotics Centre, was jointly performed by CUHK's Faculty of Medicine, Renji Hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and London NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre.
The latter two utilised surgical robots developed in Hong Kong via telesurgery to perform a gastrectomy on a pig model.
Dean of CU Medicine Philip Chiu said the technology did not lag throughout the surgery, proving the reliability of telesurgery and the surgical robots.
He added the procedure made breakthroughs in the surgical world, and gives hope that patients in distant locations can have speedy access to surgeries.
Chiu noted the robots are best used for properly trained surgeons who need assistance with the more challenging parts of their medical procedures.
As to when the robotic telesurgery system will enter into its human clinical trial phase, Chiu said it should take around two years.
They need to collect more animal experimental data, and clarify who takes responsibility in such a joiunt operation.
He added the initial phase of telesurgery on humans will focus on simpler procedures like gastrectomies and prostate resections.
