Title :
Gastrectomy surgical assistive instrument for accurate remnant stomach volume
Author :
Dib, Nancy ; Elhajj, Imad ; Antoun, Sally ; Al-Hajj, Georges
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., American Univ. of Beirut, Beirut
Abstract :
A surgical assistive device for the Sleeve Gastrectomy surgery is presented in this paper. Sleeve Gastrectomy is based on reducing the size of the stomach. The purpose of this instrument is to assist surgeons obtain accurate remnant stomach volume. The paper presents the hardware and interface design of the device. The device is composed of an inflatable cylinder to be inserted in the stomach and a panel to control the volume of the cylinder. Prototype laboratory test results gave an accuracy of about 97% for different desired volumes.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; surgery; hardware design; inflatable cylinder; interface design; remnant stomach volume; sleeve gastrectomy surgical assistive instrument; Biomimetics; Cardiac disease; Engine cylinders; Laparoscopes; Oncological surgery; Robots; Stomach; Surgical instruments; Switches; Volume measurement; Medical; device; obesity; stomach; volume;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Biomimetics, 2008. ROBIO 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2678-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2679-9
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913056
