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Canadian Surgeons Perform Telerobotic Surgery

Posted by chrisd on from the brave-patients-chart-the-course dept.

AndroidCat writes "While the equipment used isn't new, this operation was different because one of surgeons was 400km away. Dr. Mehran Anvari in Hamilton Ontario tele-operated instruments in North Bay General Hospital, supervised by Dr. Craig McKinley on site. The link was over a high priority routed Bell Canada connection. The patient, Ms. Fortier is doing quite well. Don't try this from home with a dialup connection."

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  1. at least... by mirko · · Score: 4, Funny

    please : don't slashdot them while they are operating some people...

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  2. Uh-Oh by gsharaf · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Sir, we are getting a 404 from your heart."

    1. Re:Uh-Oh by maximillianarturo · · Score: 2, Funny

      You're using the wrong ventricle port. *zing!*

  3. Re:Next, well start with the medula oblongota... by mikeophile · · Score: 3, Funny

    NO CARRIER

  4. Dr. Nick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    "The leg bone's connected to the hip bone,
    the hip bone's connected to the...red thing.
    The red thing's connected to my...wristwatch...uh oh."
  5. Phone operator by e8johan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this what you call a telephone operator?

  6. Re:hmm performance by eightball01 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also, if any encryption was done, because id be concerned with achieving maximum latency possible. Yeah, it'd be a bitch to die from a little packet loss.

  7. As a side note... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The surgeon just kicked your ass in Counter Strike with a 2ms ping.

  8. I can see it now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sooner or later, an operation like this is going to fail. When questioned, the doctor will respond, "omfg!!!!! fucken lag!!!!!"

  9. <Mehran> This bit is critical... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ö SignOff Mehran: #operating-room (Ping timeout)
    <Craig> Oh shit!

  10. Re:hmm performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >Also, any encryption was done

    Yeah.. because I can just picture what would happen if the ISP got their wires crossed and the medical implements ended up getting their commands from someone who was in the middle of a game of counterstrike.. %)

    (no I didn't RTFA. This is slashdot.. you don't need to RTFA to post an informed opinion, remember? :)

  11. huh? by djupedal · · Score: 4, Funny

    killer app? Excuse me? They're teaching med students to kill, these days, are they?

    Man, no wonder malpractice is out of hand.

    And being rabid is no excuse.

  12. Lets hope they don't play CS by revmoo · · Score: 2, Funny
    Lets just hope these surgeons don't play counterstrike, I can just see one of them screwing up an operation and instinctively shouting "LAG!!!"

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