unassisted robotic surgery

[traxtar511]

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Don't know if anyone saw this today, but apparently this robot is capable of performing some surgical procedures on its own (no, I'm not someone who is going to come in and claim that surgery will vanish in a few years). The article doesnt provide much detail, but I thought it was pretty cool. It seems that its patent holder intends on making this a commercial product very soon.

http://www.physorg.com/news67222790.html

 

[drpectin]

I saw that too, completely unassissted heart surgery on an italian patient with afib. Interesting to say the least. Impractical at best.

 

[MossPoh]

It'll be a while before stuff gets so ridiculously automated..I think the robotic technology enabling surgeons to do procedures remotley on the other side of the world might come around before full automation....Granted all of that stuff will cost ridiculous amounts of money...Still pretty neat to have a top surgeon in a specific field perform a procedure for someone 3000+ miles away...theoretically at least.

 

[mysophobe]

Yeah, but I doubt machines will ever fully take over a surgeon's job. Machines can't make subjective decisions that are crucial to many procedures--at least, not yet anyway.

 

[Faebinder]

I've had this discussion with a couple of my professors. A robot makes the operation a lot more expensive and sometimes it takes longer. Before you see a full on its own operational robot, you need to see more robotics in the ER or on the floors.

I personally dislike the robots due to the expenses it will add to the surgery... already surgeries are super expensive and don't need the damage of adding more expenses for similar results to humans. When the time is right, the robots will flow in... not yet though... not with this malpractice system.

 

[aashiq]

Ive had some experience working with it, We used it to harvest LIMA (Int ernal Mammary artery). It was quite a tedious process.
Maybe in years to come and more expertise, it will be a better option.
geocities.com/surgmcq

 

[Pir8DeacDoc]

very interesting.. Have had a lot of exposure to the robot as one of our CT surgeons is extremely well-known for using the robot with his cases and training others as well. Will be interesting to see how the field advances as I know this guy wants to push the limits.