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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. Yay! by Evil+Adrian · · Score: 2, Troll

    The cool thing about the Canadian health care system is that ANY citizen can get free Internet surgery!

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    evil adrian
  2. Re:TeleRobotics is almost a like a video game. by Evil+Adrian · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know, I hadn't thought right away about long-distance emergencies, like people in remote areas who might live hundreds of miles away from a heart surgeon and all of a sudden have a heart attack one day... in that case I'm all for it.

    But if you're going to go under the knife willingly in a non-emergency, I don't see why you wouldn't just buy a plane ticket instead of risking your life over a network outage.

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    evil adrian