OK, I admit, I was watching the youtube of the davinci bot playing Operation, and saw the link to a hysterectomy. I had one done last year, and I did just fine. While watching, they were using heat to do the cutting [electrical loop I guess]
My question is, watching it it left essentially cooked meat … why doesn’t the dead tissue rot and do nasty stuff to the patient? I mean, parts of the tissue looked like cooked chicken :eek:
We had an ob/gyn give a clinical tutorial about Da Vinci surgery and I asked him similar questions. First of all, it doesn’t rot because (if done correctly, maintaining aseptic technique) there are no microorganisms introduced that will rot the tissue. Since the electrocautery system cooks the tissue, denaturing the proteins, they won’t autodigest themselves by action of lysosomal enzymes. The other thing you need to remember is that when you’re looking at visual feeds from Da Vinci cameras, you’re seeing a field magnified 12x. The actual areas of cautery are teeeeeeny-tiny. The body has no trouble resorbing that coagulated tissue, less so in fact than resorbing sutures.