Surgical Robotics

choi

本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布

David Von Drehle, Meet Dr. Robot. Your next surgeon may not be human. Why that should make you hppy--and a little wary. Time, Nov. 22, 2010.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2032747_2033111_2033133,00.html

Quote:

"The instrument [robot]grew out of a U.S. Armysponsored project in the 1980s to develop a remote-controlled laparoscopic robot for battlefield surgery. That project is still a futurist's fantasy. But a couple of companies saw the commercial applications, and in 1999 the first surgical robots were introduced as the next phase in minimally invasive surgery.

The Henry Ford Health System, which owns Henry Ford Hospital, "is the third largest nonuniversity academic group practice in the country, behind Mayo and the Cleveland Clinic.

My comment:
(a) West Bloomfield Township, Michgan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bloomfield_Township,_Michigan
(b) Please stop reading in the middle of web page 3--right at "'My skills are in innovation and scholarship, not marketing,' Menon says candidly."

The first 2/3 of the report is about technology, and the last third is about cost of robotic surgery. But this article fails to provide any statistics about advantages, complications or cost benefit (such as how more expensive robotics costs, how much a patient save by leaving hospital earlier) of three types of operators: human surgeon, laparoscopy and robotics. Remember that many operations on prostate brings about the side effects of impotence or incontinence (presumably nerves are somehow resected unwittingly).

--