Interview with lead surgeon Dr Andre Ng, consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital, on the robot arm (From Times Series)

Interview with lead surgeon Dr Andre Ng, consultant cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital, on the robot arm

11:08am Thursday 29th April 2010 in National News © Press Association 2011

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Pioneering heart surgery using a robot arm has been carried out for the first time in the world by a British team. The system was used yesterday to correct a "short circuit" in the heart of a patient that was beating too fast. Surgeons at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester identified a rogue piece of conducting tissue that was burned away with a wire probe.