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Robo-Doc Makes Surgery Safe, Quick, and Less Painful

by Terrence O'Brien on May 15, 2008 at 05:16 PM

Robo-Doc Make Surgery Safer, Quicker, Less Painful

Most of us are nervous enough having a human open us up and play around with our inside parts, but the thought of letting our mortal enemies, the robots, do it is just unthinkable. David Roughly decided to trust his prostate cancer surgery to a four armed metallic doc anyway, and was pleasantly surprised with the results.

Because of the agility and precision of the robo-doc, Roughly suffered less discomfort and recovered more quickly than he would have from traditional surgery to remove his prostate. Instead of being laid up in bed for 10 days hopped up on morphine, Roughly was up on his own and out of the hospital in just two days, and needed only paracetamol for the pain.

The procedures performed by the robot surgeon also require less anesthetic and reduce the risk for infection in patients. Maybe there's a bright side to our new robot overlords. [Source: Daily Mail]

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Scott SchenckMay 16th 2008 11:08AM

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This is not a robot, but a robotic extension of the Dr's hands.
It is really great. It can get in where large hands can not.
The Dr uses a stereoscopic monitor and a complex hand control that is more dexterous than the human hand.

Because the incision is much much smaller, the recovery time and risks are greatly reduced.

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