Canadian Surgeons Perform Telerobotic Surgery

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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Computer Motion - telesurgery company

[joelparker]

Computer Motion is the company that built the ZEUS telesurgery system in the article. The company website has some pretty amazing advances here

Cheers, Joel

This is so yestrerday....you guys are easy

[djupedal]

By David Orenstein, December 2001 Issue

Earlier this fall, 68-year-old Madeleine Schaal volunteered to make medical history by allowing Jacques Marescaux and Michel Gagner to remove her gall bladder. What's so unusual about that? Only that she lay on an operating table in her hometown of Strasbourg, France, while the two doctors performing the surgery were in New York.

Re:TeleRobotics is almost a like a video game.

[vidarh]

Bell's "national IP infrastructure" is as close to the internet as the phone network is - it is a private IP network where they can enforce as much redundancy and quality of service as they like, which means guaranteeing bandwidth and latency is not a problem. Unless their system is badly flawed, packet loss, DDoS or intermittent hardware failures should not be a problem.

This is hardly the public internet.

CBC Radio on the operation

[AndroidCat]

CBC radio will be (is) having a short bit on the operation. (12:32 est Probably it can be time-surfed at CBC Radio