Very interesting. As a retired surgeon I have not seen robotic surgery. This was a very good introduction.
Thanks,
Ivan
At SRI, performing surgery with robots
June 4, 2009 | Length: 00:02:32
A robot in every operating room? Tom Low leads a team of researchers and engineers working on the next generation of medical robots to be used in laparoscopic surgery. Pioneered in the 1980s by SRI, the procedures involve doctors making very small incisions and then using long, skinny, robotically controlled tools to maneuver inside the patient. Low says robots will continue to advance and help automate many of the mundane tasks associated with surgical procedures.
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>> Tom: I'm Tom Lowe I'm the director of medical robotics here at SRI International and I lead a team of researchers and engineers that develop the next generation of medical robotics.
Music Our team looks into the future of surgery, speaking with clinicians, doctors, and surgeons about what the real unmet needs are in medical robotics and looks to fill those needs. It was really pioneered by SRI in the 1980?s. The notion that one could actually perform a surgery robotically, there was actually quite a bit of resistance to that initially in the 80?s. People really believed that this was a pipe dream.
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>> Tom: Early on, we thought the need for medical robotics was to deliver medical care, surgical care to locations where surgeons couldn't be present. But later we realized that it was the field of minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopic surgery that could really benefit from these robotic technologies. Laparoscopic surgical procedures involve making very small incisions and then using long skinny tools that are manipulated from outside the patient to perform the surgical procedure. And in addition to the tools, typically a camera will be inserted as well. And with robotics, we are able to make these types of procedures much more intuitive to perform. We're sitting right now in our laboratory we call the trauma pod facility. We've demonstrated that the role of many of the nurses and operating room technicians can be automated and can be directed by the surgeon himself the same way that they would interact with a human surgical team. Today medical robots permit surgeries to be performed that couldn't be performed in a minimally invasive fashion any other way. Eventually medical robotics will advance and will help automate many of the mundane tasks associated with surgical procedures or patient care in general and that will allow the human nurses and physicians in the medical facilities in the hospitals to spend more time caring for the patients and less time doing mundane tasks.
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