| #ffffff;" /> | | | | time. This reduces costs and gives the patient the |
| Find out how robotics is a rapidly expanding portion of | | | | ability to return to normal activities in a much shorter |
| medical treatments. | | | | time span. |
| Robotics in medicine is producing great results in many | | | | Surgical procedures aren’t the only place |
| ways, especially in the area of surgery. The term | | | | robotics can be used in medicine. Developers are |
| robotics means the use of a robot to perform various | | | | continuously working on new ways to allow robotics to |
| functions. A robot has movable physical structure, a | | | | perform tasks. One area that’s especially |
| power source, a sensor system, and a computerized | | | | promising in the control of disease and the prevention |
| “brain” to control activities. | | | | of diseases being spread. Areas that could be harmful |
| Surgeons of the future will use robotics to perform | | | | for hospital personnel can be sterilized by using |
| surgical tasks. Robotics still requires the expertise of | | | | robotics. Some other types of procedures are |
| the surgeon to operate, but the instruments used by | | | | sterilizing floors, delivering lab specimens, pulling patients |
| robotics improve the control, the precision, as well as | | | | on stretchers to rooms. |
| often minimize the invasiveness of surgical procedures. | | | | Advocates of using more robotics in medicine feel that |
| Robotics is being used for things like gall bladder | | | | the benefits far outweigh any negative constraints. |
| surgery, endoscopy, and many other surgeries. | | | | However, in some instances the question of the |
| Basically, here’s how robotics surgery works. | | | | patient’s emotional state has been questioned. |
| The surgeon looks into a viewfinder to see images | | | | Most people feel more secure when being transported |
| being sent by a camera that’s inside the patient. | | | | by a human than having a robot transport them. There |
| Images show the surgical site and the surgical | | | | are other instances where human interaction can have |
| instruments. Controls, much like a joystick are used by | | | | a positive effect on the patient. |
| the surgeon to manipulate the instruments and perform | | | | How far will the loss of human interaction go in the |
| the surgery. | | | | medical community? At this point, it seems there will be |
| Patients with robotics surgery have smaller incisions, | | | | little attention paid to the humanistic side of using |
| shorter hospital stays, and normally faster recovery | | | | robotics in medicine. |