Perspectives on Computer Assisted Surgery (cas) in Minimally Invasive Surgery and the Role of the Cas System Nurse

Minimally invasive surgery has become a widely used surgical technique that improves patients’ safety and optimizes health resources. Specifically, laparoscopic surgery uses small incisions through the abdomen to operate, for example a liver, with minimal postoperative complications and faster recoveries. However, the cognitive load and surgical skills required by surgeons increase when compared to open surgery. For these reasons, specific training models and new technologies are needed to assist surgeons. One of this kind of systems are Computer Assisted Surgery systems that enable the display of computer generated imagery of preand intra-operative data to assist surgeons during its surgical procedures, but in many hospitals either they are not used at a basic level due to socio-economic challenges or components still face considerable technical challenges that must be solved. In this paper we list some of the difficulties that CAS components face during a laparoscopic surgery and highlight the benefits that a new job profile, the computer assisted surgery system nurse could bring in several modelling and tracking scenarios.