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发帖数: 6973 | 1 发信人: choi (choi), 信区: Hardware
标 题: Surgical Robotics
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Dec 9 17:14:30 2010, 美东)
David Von Drehle, Meet Dr. Robot. Your next surgeon may not be human. Why
that should make you hppy--and a little wary. Time, Nov. 22, 2010.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2032747_2033111_2033133,00.html
Quote:
"The instrument [robot]grew out of a U.S. Armysponsored project in the 1980s
to develop a remote-controlled laparoscopic robot for battlefield surgery.
That project is still a futurist's fantasy. But a couple of companies saw
the commercial applications, and in 1999 the first surgical robots were
introduced as the next phase in minimally invasive surgery.
The Henry Ford Health System, which owns Henry Ford Hospital, "is the third
largest nonuniversity academic group practice in the country, behind Mayo
and the Cleveland Clinic.
My comment:
(a) West Bloomfield Township, Michgan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bloomfield_Township,_Michigan
(b) Please stop reading in the middle of web page 3--right at "'My skills
are in innovation and scholarship, not marketing,' Menon says candidly."
The first 2/3 of the report is about technology, and the last third is about
cost of robotic surgery. But this article fails to provide any statistics
about advantages, complications or cost benefit (such as how more expensive
robotics costs, how much a patient save by leaving hospital earlier) of
three types of operators: human surgeon, laparoscopy and robotics. Remember
that many operations on prostate brings about the side effects of impotence
or incontinence (presumably nerves are somehow resected unwittingly). |
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