Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Robotic Surgery - Enhance

Imaging being wheeled in to the operating room, knowing a robot may save your life within a matter of hours. Well this is reality. Robotic surgery is no longer just a wacky idea is featured in movies, it with us here today. Robotic surgery has changed the field of medicine for the better. It has made great strides in helping patience experience less pain and scarring. The Robots do this by employing high tech cameras to help the doctor/operator make tinnier incisions. This new robotic surgeon invention has changed the profession of surgery in many ways:

- less wait time for surgery
- patient spends less time in the operating room
- less time under aesthesia
- less risk for infection
- improved recovery time
- newer and improved surgery techniques have been developed directly because of this new device

The Robotic surgery inovation also offers many benefits to hospitals. This robot is so efficient it can perform more surgeries faster with better accuracy and proficiency than a human surgeon. With less patients in the hospital recovering from surgery, the hospital staff are freed to take on more important emergency cases by staffing fewer doctors and nurses in the surgical department. The device is slowly revolutionizing the way surgery is defined and performed. There are already two new working models the surgical robot performs everyday and with each model they become more advanced and better at the job of saving people’s lives.

Robotic Surgery - Retrieves

The fundamental concept of robotic surgeons is derived from the first assembly robots used in manufacturing plants and large commercial factories. Nevertheless, there are many inventions influential to the creation of the robotic surgeon. Ever since the witch doctor there have been new technologies invented to help cure illnesses. From the wheel chair, to the x-ray machine, to the pace maker, and to the MRI and CAT scan machines; without these inventions we would have not been able to invent the Robotic Surgeon. The Robotic Surgeon took the knowledge of the human surgeon and then added all the features from the x-ray machine, the MRI and CAT scan machines. It has perfected complex procedures like how to open the heart wall without damaging the heart, or how to sew up a person with minimal scarring.

Robotic Surgery - Obsolesce

This third model of the Robotic Surgeon will make the da Vinci and Zeus systems obsolesce. Both the da Vinci and the Zeus surgical systems have many of the same functions as the Robotic Surgeon, yet both of these earlier devices use a different technique to undertake a surgery. Both of the da Vinci and Zeus features will appear in the 3rd model of the Surgical Robot, which has yet to be named. The 3rd model will force on any error the da Vinci and Zeus systems had to make sure would not occur again. This new 3rd model will use some of the most high tech digital cameras and simulating systems on the market today to ensure surgical accuracy. The 3rd model will bring together some of the best features of the other two devices to make a positive change in the surgical field.

Robotic Surgery - Reverse

          Although there are drawbacks to this new technology - the pros far outweigh the cons. The medical robot is dealing directly with the fragility of human life so safety will always be a top concern. Errors to monitor do not just involve fault or inaccuracy by the robot but also from complication from the aesthesia and other medicines. The surgical robot is a piece of technology and accordingly, anything could go wrong. Some of the drawbacks for this device are flaws in the design, poor manufacturing of hardware error, or software errors.