Clinical Evaluation of the ArtiSential Instruments in Thoracic Surgery
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Clinical Evaluation of the ArtiSential Instruments in Thoracic Surgery, a step towards surgeon powered robotics
IRAS ID
250442
Contact name
Joel Dunning
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
LivsMed
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
ArtiSential Instruments have been designed by LivsMed in South Korea and are a series of ground breaking instruments that may change the face of endoscopic surgery. Until now suturing has been technically very difficult to perform endoscopically as have delicate movements of the head of usual endoscopic instruments, so surgeons who require complex tasks in their operations have been turning to robotic solutions in order to achieve this. However an Intuitive robot is £1.4 million in order to provide wristed and fully manipulated arms. Now for the first time in a full series of endoscopic instruments this has been achieved with the ArtiSential Series of Instruments. It is likely to make the advantages of robotic surgery redundant and therefore be a considerable financial saving to all institutions where cost is an important consideration when adopting new technology.
We would like to be the first site in Europe to test its safety and efficacy in Thoracic surgery. We would like to test it in 3 operative situations, in VATS( Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery) Diaphragm plication, in VATS lobectomy and in VATS Thymectomy. We are unique in the UK in that we perform all 3 of these operations both by VATS and Robotically and therefore are ideally placed to assess whether the ArtiSential surgical instrument will mean that the VATS technique will become identical to the robotic technique in terms of its speed,safety and ease of performance.
We also have the considerable advantage in that we have successfully conducted a similar project (IRAS 225207 : flexdex instrument in Chest Surgery) for the first generation of wristed instruments from a USA company which now has CE marking and had its first use in Thoracic Surgery in Europe with us.REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - South Yorkshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/YH/0450
Date of REC Opinion
28 Dec 2018
REC opinion
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