- STRATA: Surgical Treatment Using Robotic Approach in The Acute Abdomen — Recruiting • NCT07850401.
- STRATA Trial Summary.
- Robotic surgery in emergency abdominal surgery improves outcomes and patient satisfaction compared to open or laparoscopic approaches.
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- Quick orientation before opening the registry record.
- Checking recruitment status, phase and sponsor at a glance.
- Connecting this trial to nearby guidelines, Drug Science and education.
Robotic surgery in the UK is now widely used in elective procedures based on evidence that it can improve outcomes, with improved vision and precision for the surgeon resulting in better results and greater rates of minimally invasive surgery. Despite this, there remain some concerns about its use with some saying it adds cost with limited or no benefit to patients. Its application in the emergency setting has not been well studied. However, emergency patients are the sickest patients, and so stand to potentially gain the most from robotic surgery,…