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Haptic technology in telesurgery, making a virtual image of a patient or incision, would allow a surgeon to see what they are working on as well as feel it. This technology is designed to give a surgeon the ability to feel tendons and muscles as if it were actually the patient's body.
Computer-assisted surgery (CAS) represents a surgical concept and set of methods, that use computer technology for surgical planning, and for guiding or performing surgical interventions. CAS is also known as computer-aided surgery , computer-assisted intervention , image-guided surgery , digital surgery and surgical navigation , but these are ...
After receiving a $4.9 million grant from the Department of Defense and the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (United States Army) (TATRC) in 2011, [12] the research focused on the ways telemedicine technology can be used in surgery for both civilian and military purposes, along with studying other areas of research. [13]
The ZEUS Robotic Surgical System (ZRSS) was a medical robot designed to assist in surgery, originally produced by the American robotics company Computer Motion. Its predecessor, AESOP, was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration in 1994 to assist surgeons in minimally invasive surgery. The ZRSS itself was cleared by the FDA seven years ...
A Colorado teenager who lost her leg in a shark attack in Belize over the summer described a feeling of playing "tug of war" with the dangerous sea creatures as they ripped off her limb and ...
Eucalyptus oil is commonly used for steam inhalation as it relieves inflammation and helps clear phlegm. However, it can be overwhelming to some, and can cause sinus and skin irritation.
The Lindbergh operation was a complete tele-surgical operation carried out by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg, France (over a distance of several thousand miles) using telecommunications solutions based on high-speed services and sophisticated Zeus surgical robot.
Anxious airline flyers may well remember 2024 as the year their worst fears about the safety of air travel felt confirmed, as a series of unprecedented, and in some cases fatal, airplane incidents ...