Robo-Surgeon

Two surgeons in a Paris hospital have performed the first successful open-heart surgery in year 1999 using a computer-controlled robot, reports the French newspaper Le Figaro. Six operations were performed, including a coronary bypass. The method involves operating through a one-and-a-half-inch [4 cm] incision. Sitting at a console several feet from the patient, the surgeons look inside the patient’s body by means of a camera and use two joysticks to direct the robot’s arm movements. Because the computer reduces the surgeons’ movements by three to five times, the surgery is more precise and less invasive. Another advantage is that the patient experiences less pain during recovery. Now adays medical procedures are getting more and more high tech and wide spread. We will continuously see more discoveries about our technology today and in the future.