A new report from RCSI has heard from surgeons across a range of specialties and training stages about how technology is changing surgery.

The study explores the current technology-enabled trends that are enabling surgery and improving patients’ lives, and also what is needed to ensure surgeons can use emerging and new technologies into the future.

The New Technologies for Future of Surgery in Ireland RCSI Working Group Report 2024 engaged with 30 surgeons, surgical trainees and researchers across a range of disciplines. 

Their responses identified biomaterials, robotics and digital platforms for collaboration as the most important current technologies for surgery, followed by data analytics and 3D-reconstructive models for planning operations. Looking forward, the study participants believe that artificial intelligence, wearables, virtual/augmented-reality displays and genomic analysis will be of great importance for surgery over the next decade.

Based on the study, surgeons are generally excited by the opportunities for more personalised and less invasive surgeries, and across the board their interest in new technologies is being driven by the desire to improve patient care and outcomes. 

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