#telesurgery

[merillifesciences]

Robotics Is Reshaping Minimally Invasive Surgery

Robotic-assisted surgery is changing how minimally invasive procedures are performed across the world.

Instead of relying only on traditional instruments, surgeons now use robotic systems that provide: ✔ Enhanced precision ✔ Better visualisation ✔ Improved flexibility ✔ Greater control in complex procedures

These systems are being used in cardiac surgery, urology, gynaecology, oncology, and more.

The goal is to support surgeons with advanced technology that may help improve surgical efficiency and patient recovery.

Interesting to see how technologies like 3D imaging, AI-assisted guidance, and robotic arms are becoming part of modern operating rooms.

One example in this space is Meril’s MIZZO Endo 4000 robotic-assisted surgical platform designed for minimally invasive procedures.

Learn more about the MIZZO Endo 4000 robotic-assisted surgical system through these short videos:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mbbYidOeDOA

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O_gOS3c_eYg

[principleofplenitude]

To see just how vulnerable these tools really are, Chizeck and his team of electrical engineers and computer scientists decided to find all the different ways to hack a robotic surgery tool called the RAVEN II. For their study, published in April in the open-access journal arXiv, the researchers set up a surgeon (in this case a graduate student with a rudimentary understanding of the system) and a robot (used here to move blocks around a table, not to operate on a real person). Information moved between the two by passing through a central network hub, to which an "attacking machine" was also connected. As code moved between the surgeon and robot, the attacking machine tried to alter or interrupt the messages—a "man-in-the-middle" style of attack. The researchers wrote special bits of code to delay information or to replace those given by the surgeon. No matter what they tried to attack—changing the position of the surgical tool, delaying the surgeon's command, forcing the system to reset—they succeeded. Many times, the "surgeon" didn't even notice that the system wasn't behaving as it should.

“The Surgeon Will Skype You Now” from Popular Mechanics

[nayanasri]

Research In Lag Time Set To Determine The Future Of Telesurgery

Research In Lag Time Set To Determine The Future Of Telesurgery

 Advancements in robotic surgery continue to make headlines, especially with the latest news about Ethicon, a medical device company in the Johnson & Johnson family, entering into a partnership with the Life Sciences team at Google to develop surgical robotics. But what is the real future of medical robots? One area of current research, performed by the Florida Hospital Nicholson Center,… Read…

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[adeeperlookattoday]

We've covered Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci surgical robot for years. In fact, to some, the system's long history—1.5 million surgeries dating back to 2000—may be one of its most surprising attribu...

Dreams for the future include telesurgery—where we might install a surgical robot in a field hospital thousands of miles away, and operated by a top surgeon, it would (securely) transport his or her skills around the globe to where they're most needed—and maybe, much further on, some degree of autonomy.

[letsvirtualreality]

SURGERY

     The main feature of this system is force feedback as the surgeon needs to be able to gauge the amount of pressure to use when performing a delicate procedure. Unfortunately, there is an issue of time delay or latency which is a serious concern as any delay – even a fraction of a second – can feel abnormal to the surgeon and interrupt the procedure. So there needs to be precise force feedback in place to prevent this.

     Robotic surgery and other issues relating to virtual reality and medicine can be found in the virtual reality and healthcare section. This section contains a list of individual articles which discuss virtual reality in surgery etc.

[letsvirtualreality]

Telesurgery in use to allow a surgeon to operate on a patient remotely.

http://aurametrix.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/telemedicine-part-1/telesurgery/

[rippleeffectmag]

The surgeon who operates from 400km away

The surgeon who operates from 400km away

BY: Rose Eveleth

When Mehran Anvari picks up a surgical instrument and cuts into somebody’s flesh, he doesn’t use his own hands. In fact, he’s not even in the room. He operates on patients that are 400 kilometres away.

From a console in St Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton, Canada, he controls a robot surgeon in an entirely different part of the country, slicing, stitching and removing bits of the…

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[tuhbefayuh]

AT&T Seeds New Telesurgery Program at MD Anderson

Yeeeee!

DeBakey students all over this video! (I'm in it too)

But seriously, it was an amazing opportunity to be there and listen to all the surgeons and witness what was happening and all the change that has happened in medicine.

LOL, and my friend, Danielle at the end.