[IP] Autonomous robot does heart surgery. Whoah ...
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From: Randall <rvh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 19, 2006 6:52:10 AM PDT
To: Dave Farber <farber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dewayne Hendricks
<dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, JMG <johnmacsgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Autonomous robot does heart surgery. Whoah ...
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Saturday, May 20, 2006 at 12:02 AM EDT
Italian robot does heart surgery[foto] World first for technology now
able to work by itself (ANSA) - Rome, May 18 - A robot surgeon has for
the first time carried out a long-distance heart operation completely by
itself .
The 50-minute surgery, which took place in a Milanese hospital, was
carried out on a 34-year-old patient suffering from atrial fibrillation,
or 'heart flutters' .
The operation was initiated and monitored on a PC in Boston, USA, by
Carlo Pappone, head of Arrhythmia and Cardiac Electrophysiology at
Milan's San Raffaele university. Also watching the operation - a world
first - were dozens of heart specialists attending an international
congress on arrhythmia in the American city .
"This operation has enabled us to cross a new frontier," Pappone said
afterwards, suggesting that in the future people could have access to
sophisticated surgery wherever they were" .
The Italian expert has used the robot surgeon for at least 40 previous
operations, some of which have been described in detail in the Journal
of the American College of Cardiology .
The novelty of this latest experience is that the robot was able to
conduct the entire procedure by itself. In the past it needed specific
orders from its operator along the way .
"It has learned to do the job thanks to experience gathered from
operations on 10,000 patients," Pappone said, explaining that the
expertise of several human surgeons was used to boost its software .
"The robot can now recognise the type of patient and the required method
of operating," he added .
The prototype robot developed by Pappone and his team in Milan,
considered a major achievement for Italian medical research, is to be
put on sale later this month .
<http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/
2006-05-18_1186367.html>
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