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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. Computer Motion - telesurgery company by joelparker · · Score: 4, Informative
    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

  2. Re:TeleRobotics is almost a like a video game. by vidarh · · Score: 4, Informative
    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.