Posted by ketyung
on Mar/28/2009
at 5:04 am
When human doctors perform a coronary bypass, they will need to stop the heart from beating. What they normally do is by cracking open the patient’s chest and stopping all the functions of the heart, to make it stop beating.
Waseda University in Japan has produced a surgical robot that is able to perform a coronary bypass even when the heart is still beating. The robot does not need to stop the heart of the patient, meaning the operation can skip the second step mentioned above i.e. there is no need to crack open the patient’s chest to stop all the functions of the heart.
The Japanese surgical robot is super precise, it can perform the surgery even when the heart is beating. The robot can perform the operation in millimeters-long of accuracy. But the biggest barrier of having these surgical bots is its cost and the future maintenance costs.
Having the surgical robot that can perform heart surgery without needing the cracking chest step, will reduce a lot the scars (perhaps zero scar) to be left on the patient’s body.
via dvice
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