Robotic Bronchoscopy

It effectively locates small or hard-to-reach areas in the lungs. With robotic assistance, we can obtain clear images and information about these areas, enabling improved treatment plans. You can feel confident in receiving the best care for your lung condition. 

How Robotic Bronchoscopy Works 

Robotic-assisted lung biopsy is a simple procedure that uses robots to help us take a small sample from the lung. This lets us accurately target the biopsy needle to different parts of a nodule while seeing what's happening on a screen. It helps create better pictures of the lungs and makes it easier to check places in the lungs that are hard to reach. This leads to more accurate results from the biopsy.

Benefits of Robotic Bronchoscopy

Benefits of robotic bronchoscopy include:

• Higher accuracy
• No required cutting or incisions – minimally invasive lung biopsy
• Ability for patients to go home the same day if no further surgery is required

What to Expect 

During the procedure, a flexible tube (called a bronchoscope) is inserted into the windpipe (trachea).

Using a camera, ultrasound technology and CT (computed tomography) images, the scope obtains clearer images of your lungs and nearby lymph nodes.

Your pulmonologist will also perform a technique known as a transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) to obtain tissue and fluid samples from the lungs and surrounding lymph nodes.

These will be used to perform a biopsy.

You will be sedated during the procedure. Risks include possible bleeding and infection.

Although robotic bronchoscopy is usually an outpatient procedure, complications may result in a brief hospital stay.