| The use of technology in healthcare has opened the | | | | patient, there is less blood loss, a greater chance of |
| way for improvements in a variety of areas. One | | | | precise cuts around delicate nerves and tendons |
| proof of the advantages and benefits of technology is | | | | which may allow the patient a better chance of not |
| that more people are surviving diseases like cancer | | | | having side effects from the surgery, and usually a |
| and heart disease due to the ability to diagnose them | | | | shorter stay in the hospital and a shorter recovery |
| earlier than previously capable. With this capability | | | | time. The precision of the robot is far more accurate |
| comes the advantage of being able to use a protocol | | | | than a surgeon using his or her hands alone. One |
| that may be less drastic than one needed as the | | | | reason is the use of a microscope and lights in the |
| disease progresses. With a disease like cancer, as it | | | | area of the surgery. A doctor has access to this |
| metastasizes, the ability to fight it and eliminate it gets | | | | technology in an operating room but this is amazingly |
| harder and harder. Although, another use of technology | | | | close and well lit in a very small area without having to |
| in healthcare has brought us new drugs that can target | | | | cut the patient open. The accuracy of being able to |
| more precisely the particular cancer cells along with | | | | see within a fraction of a millimeter is a great |
| being more targeted in other areas. It has also brought | | | | advantage for the doctor operating the robot. |
| us new radiation equipment that can be far more | | | | Another area where robots are used is in robotic heart |
| accurate and not have to use the shotgun approach | | | | surgery. Again the accuracy and precision of the tools |
| to get to the cancer. The beam can even be bent | | | | lead to a greater chance of a quicker recovery time |
| around key body parts like glands and arteries so as | | | | and less trauma to the patient. The finer incisions and |
| not to damage them when focusing in that area. | | | | the likelihood of less blood loss are one advantage to |
| One interesting and futuristic advance is the use of | | | | using a robot in heart surgery. The da Vinci robot used |
| robots. You can now have a robotic prostatectomy | | | | in both heart and cancer surgeries and has the |
| with an outcome that may be to the advantage of the | | | | opportunity to be used in a variety of areas where |
| patient. With the use of a robot in surgery there is a | | | | precision and accuracy are paramount. |
| smaller incision or incisions which is less trauma for the | | | | |