Are They Crazy?
Sunday, November 19, 2017
Computerworld reports on a test to encounter if robotic surgical procedure tin locomote conducted remotely--1200 miles away--checking to encounter if the lag fourth dimension betwixt the operators actions as well as the surgical incisions as well as other tasks would locomote likewise long. Excerpt:
A Florida infirmary has successfully tested lag fourth dimension created past times the Internet for a simulated robotic surgical procedure inwards Ft. Worth, Texas, to a greater extent than than 1,200 miles away from the surgeon who was at the virtual controls.
Next, the infirmary plans to exam lag times for remote robotic or "telesurgery" inwards Denver as well as hence Loma Linda, Calif.
"Based on these tests, nosotros get got determined that telesurgery is possible as well as to a greater extent than oft than non security for large areas inside the United States," said Roger Smith, CTO at the Florida Hospital Nicholson Center inwards Celebration, Fla., where the tests were performed. "Limitations are no longer due to lag fourth dimension but factors associated alongside reliability, social acceptance, insurance as well as legal liability.
Let's ambit aside "reliability, social acceptance, insurance as well as legal liability."
Let's simply retrieve almost what happens when, inwards the middle of laparoscopic surgery, a complication occurs as well as the surgical procedure has to switch to "open" mode--and quickly.
Is this what the CTO agency past times "generally safe?"
A Florida infirmary has successfully tested lag fourth dimension created past times the Internet for a simulated robotic surgical procedure inwards Ft. Worth, Texas, to a greater extent than than 1,200 miles away from the surgeon who was at the virtual controls.
Next, the infirmary plans to exam lag times for remote robotic or "telesurgery" inwards Denver as well as hence Loma Linda, Calif.
"Based on these tests, nosotros get got determined that telesurgery is possible as well as to a greater extent than oft than non security for large areas inside the United States," said Roger Smith, CTO at the Florida Hospital Nicholson Center inwards Celebration, Fla., where the tests were performed. "Limitations are no longer due to lag fourth dimension but factors associated alongside reliability, social acceptance, insurance as well as legal liability.
Let's ambit aside "reliability, social acceptance, insurance as well as legal liability."
Let's simply retrieve almost what happens when, inwards the middle of laparoscopic surgery, a complication occurs as well as the surgical procedure has to switch to "open" mode--and quickly.
Is this what the CTO agency past times "generally safe?"