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Do you trust Robots to help in Heart Surgery?

January 6th, 2010

It is the latest advance technology that moved open heart surgical procedures to the category of minimally invasive surgery. To reduce the degree and the shock of cardiac surgery as much as possible – a robotically-assisted heart surgery is performed. It is intended to make endoscopic heart operations possible. With this, the surgeon controls the surgical instruments with the help of a computer. The surgeon views the image presented by the endoscope on a computer screen. The surgeon controls them by means of a computer comfort instead of controlling the surgical instruments directly. The computer reads the surgeon’s hand actions and causes the surgical instruments to react accordingly. This system addresses the major difficulties to affecting the long surgical instruments manually. Computer manages of the surgical instruments basically removes the vibration results, and also the non-intuitive feel of direction.

As an effect, there are uprising concerns among the original companies and surgeons who performs the original open heart surgery. On the other hand debates among insurers are also a major concern, they are considering the risk of having a robot assisted Heart Surgery in their health plans. Although, it is accepted that not everybody are open to this idea, even if its effective and safety are confirmed, there is still a shade of a hesitation on the area.