Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital have performed the world’s first operation inside the eye using a robot. Robert MacLaren, Professor of Ophthalmology. assisted by Dr Thomas Edwards, Nuffield Medical Fellow, used the remotely controlled robot to lift a membrane 100th of a millimetre thick from the retina at the back of the right eye of the Revd Dr William Beaver, 70, an Associate Priest at St Mary the Virgin, Iffley, Oxford.
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The Robotic Retinal Dissection Device (R2D2) is designed to mitigate against tiny tremors in surgeons' hands, which can even be caused by their pulse.
Built by Dutch medical robotics firm Preceyes BV, it has seven independent
In this instance, Professor of Ophthalmology Robert MacLaren entered the eye of Reverend Dr William Beaver via a hole less than 1mm in diameter. The
The operation has so far been a success and Father Beaver’s vision is improving.
The trial is sponsored by the University of Oxford and funded by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, with support from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and additional funding from Dutch blindness charity Zizoz.
