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- Title
Robotic Cardiac Surgery in Colombia: Overcoming the Challenges of a Middle-income Setting.
- Authors
Andrade, Darío; Vinck, Eric E.; Parra, Juan F.; Balkhy, Husam H.; Núñez, Federico
- Abstract
In developing countries, limited resources and low health budgets result in slow developments in the field of cardiac surgery. As a consequence, advances in surgery become a challenging process. In Colombia, most institutions do not have the capacity or infrastructure for minimally invasive and video-assisted cardiac surgery, let alone robotic assisted cardiac surgery (RACS). Despite the challenges, efforts to overcome these hurdles are critical for the future of cardiac surgery in low-income settings. Here we describe the first cases of robotic cardiac surgeries performed in Colombia.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; CARDIAC surgery; SURGICAL robots; OPERATIVE surgery; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2020, Vol 35, Issue 6, p990
- ISSN
0102-7638
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21470/1678-9741-2020-0064