MedPage -- For laparoscopic cholecystectomy, human assistants and robots work equally well, a literature review showed. Comparisons between robot- and human-assisted surgery showed no statistically significant differences in morbidity, the need to switch to open surgery, total surgery time, or length of hospital stay, Kurinchi S. Gurusamy, M.D., of University College London, and colleagues reported online in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
