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| The Karp Research Building at Children's Hospital Boston |
The Center for Robotic Surgery's robust research program is focused on finding safe and innovative applications for this technology. Children's Hospital Boston is one of the only pediatric hospitals to perform clinical assessments and outcome analysis - measuring and analyzing the outcomes of robotic surgeries versus open surgeries to ensure the use of the surgical robot is always advantageous to the patient.
A second surgical robot, housed in the hospital's new 680,000 square-foot state-of-the-art research building, is dedicated exclusively to training surgeons and developing and perfecting new robotic procedures and surgical techniques before they are applied to patients.
Researchers from Children's developed and perfected the technique for performing robotically-assisted pediatric pyeloplasties, and have recently completed an 18-month study that showed that the same technique is effective for bladder augmentation procedures. Results from research conducted here have also led to advances and refinements in the robotic equipment, making it more suitable for use in pediatric surgery.
Studies now underway include:
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