What? Robots do surgery?
Sounds like a sci-fi movie
That is true?
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Or is it like this?
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Neither
Actually, it is
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According to the perspective of clinical medical application, medical robots can be roughly divided into surgical robots, rehabilitation robots, socially assisted robots, and remote robots.
You may ask, with robotic surgery, what do you need a doctor to do? Is it fishing on the side?
It's impossible to touch the fish!
In fact, robotic surgery is not really to let the robot operate fully automatically, it still has to be controlled by doctors, and doctors need to undergo professional training and obtain relevant qualification certifications before they can operate robots for surgery.
The principle is a bit like shadow puppetry, except that the "big guy" behind the operation needs to have superb skills and rich experience.
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Take the da Vinci surgical robot, which has the "king of surgery", as an example, it is mainly composed of three parts: the surgeon's console, the bedside robotic arm system, and the imaging system.
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This robot is equivalent to adding "three heads and six arms" and "fiery eyes" to doctors.
The 720-degree flexible rotating manipulator can complete subtle and precise movements during surgery.
The magnifying glass-like 3D eyes can magnify what you "see" 10 times in high definition, and a small blood vessel is also extremely clear......
The surgical robot can complete delicate surgical operations in the human orifice, blood vessels and nerve-dense areas, and is widely used in urology, gynecology, general surgery, orthopedics, ......
Taking hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery as an example, due to the deep surgical site, insufficient space, complex anatomy, and high surgical precision requirements, such as liver hemangioma, liver cancer resection, gallbladder cancer, radical resection of hepatic hilar bile duct cancer, complex bile duct stones, common bile duct cyst, resection of benign and malignant pancreatic tumors, and splenectomy...... Robotic minimally invasive surgery can be applied.
However, it is important to note that not all diseases are suitable for robotic minimally invasive surgery.
The doctor will make a comprehensive assessment of the patient's specific condition, the location and size of the lesion, and the patient's overall health to determine whether this type of surgery is suitable for this type of surgery.
Disclaimer: This article is a medical-related educational science article, does not involve specific treatment methods or medical behaviors, and should not replace hospital visits.