Robotics is advancing every day, and over the years people invented some amazing robots, but today we have the first robot to have performed surgery on actual human body. These robots are not as usual, they don’t play instruments and carry heavy things anymore, but they perform real surgeries at Canada’s McGill University Health Centre. So far, there are only two robots that can perform surgeries, DaVinci, a surgical robot, and anaesthetic robot McSleepy.
You may have heard of the Da Vinci robot before. But for those of you that haven't, basically it's a robot that allows a doctor to control an ultra-small set of robotic pincers and make micro movements on a scale human hands are incapable of.
Dr A Aprikian said that The DaVinci allows surgeons to work from a workstation operating surgical instruments with delicate movements of our fingers with a precision that cannot be provided by humans alone.
He and his team of surgeons operated four robotic arms that can rotate 360 degrees from a dedicated workstation via video control with 3D high definition image quality.
In this operation, they have removed part of the patient's prostate gland, which sits at the neck of the urethra and produces the fluid part of semen.
It is a software system that directs infusion pumps in a patient's vein to release specifically timed and measured doses of drugs that induce sleepiness, control pain and relax muscles during an operation. The computerized system also provides continuous feedback on how the patient is responding to the drugs as surgery progresses, from brainwave patterns and muscle contractions to heart rate and blood pressure readings.
Dr Aprikian said that McSleepy helped to create the perfect conditions needed for robotic surgery.
He said: 'Automated anesthesia delivery via McSleepy guarantees the same high quality of care every time it is used, independent from the subjective level of expertise.'
His colleague Dr Thomas Hemmerling said they were still improving the robotic approach. Just last month, researcher Linda van den Bedem from the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven unveiled a robot that used 'force feedback' to allow the surgeon to feel what he or she wa doing.
But Dr Hemmerling said:'Robots in medicine can provide health care of higher safety and precision, thus ultimately improving outcomes.'
For more information about how the robot do the surgery you can access to below video
I wouldn't want to be the first person to be operated on by such contraptions. I think Doctors have started to become lazy.
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