Robotic surgery is the use of robots in order to do medical surgery. This type of surgery has increasingly been used now days due to the improvement of technology.
This video shows one part of surgery of human heart done by using robots with precise explanation with it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suJahF9VCe4
I was amazed with this video that the robots can do surgery inside the body without openning (or cutting) the patients body.
IT system used
- Robotic arms
- Artificial intelligence
- Handles (joystick)
- Well trained doctors who can manipulate the device
Advantages
- Surgery can be done in remote areas: The doctors can control the robots in distant places
- Precision and miniturization of surgery
- Less pain and scaring for the patient - the incision is only 30 cm.
- Less recovery time
- Less people needed to do a surgery
- Robots do not get tired but humans do
Disadvantages and issues
- Reliability: Because the doctor is not doing the survery at the spot, with his OWN hands, there is a question of reliablity in the robots.
- People and machines: If technology improves and most of the surgery is done by using robots, doctors will be overdependent on these devices. As mentioned before, there are less people needed to do a surgery. However, this will lead to less opportunity for the doctors to do their job, which will increase unemployment.
- Economically, the cost of purphasing the robot is expensive
- Size: The robots are generally huge and takes up a lot of space.
Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_surgery
http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00760/Advantages%20of%20Robotic%20Surgery.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00760/Disadvantages%20of%20Robotic%20Surgery.htm
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