Robotic versus laparoscopic anti-reflux and hiatal surgery in a uk benign upper gi unit: perioperative outcomes in a four-year observational study
Jada Saunders, Mustafa Al-Qasem, Edward J Nevins, Alexander Green, Sadiq Bawa, Liam Horgan · 2026
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Jada Saunders and co-authors compared robotic and laparoscopic keyhole surgery for acid reflux and hiatus hernia inside one British hospital unit that treats benign upper digestive conditions. Their observational study covered one hundred adults operated on between February 2022 and January 2026, fifty-seven of them with the robot.
Robotic operations were faster overall, with a median of 88 minutes against 120, and far more robotic patients went home the same day. Revision operations, which are harder repeat procedures, made up a bigger share of the robotic workload. Once differences between patients were taken into account, the time advantage shrank and could not be separated from the surgeons' experience, though the same-day discharge advantage held. The authors present the robot as successfully absorbed into routine service, with surgeon skill and case mix still to be untangled from the machine's own effect.
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| CREATOR | Jada Saunders, Mustafa Al-Qasem, Edward J Nevins, Alexander Green, Sadiq Bawa, Liam Horgan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |