Robot may soon perform long-distance operations
‘Medical robots will increasingly hold the surgical key for heart patients living in remote or isolated communities, says a top cardiologist.
Machines operating by remote control won’t replace the human element, but actually will refine any movement by the surgeon, Dr. Alan Menkis said yesterday at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress.
They have the potential to be better than humans, he said.
“Movement of the robotic arm within the patient is a smaller, more precise motion with no tremor,� said Menkis, who presented a study on the first 11 patients in Canada who had mitral valve repair surgery (an open heart procedure) earlier this year using the U.S.-built da Vinci robotic system.
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