Sadly, as many of the NYC ER docs have said, there really wasn't a flood of severely-injured-but-savable people into the area hospitals. Injury apparently was largely an all or none phenomenon.
Actually, gas is infused to expand the abdomen during the surgery, so the patient may not be that fat. Also, those three robot arms look to be going into ports about the same size as used in a typical laparoscopic procedure. (I don't think you really mean arthroscopic...that means scoping a joint....and the most gallbladders aren't found inside joints).
Did anyone contact the author of the RFC to let
him know the protocol has been implemented?
He's listed as:
David Waitzman EMail: dwaitzman@BBN.COM
Maybe someone should send him a pingflock....
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Sadly, as many of the NYC ER docs have said, there really wasn't a flood of severely-injured-but-savable people into the area hospitals. Injury apparently was largely an all or none phenomenon.
Actually, gas is infused to expand the abdomen during the surgery, so the patient may not be that fat. Also, those three robot arms look to be going into ports about the same size as used in a typical laparoscopic procedure. (I don't think you really mean arthroscopic...that means scoping a joint....and the most gallbladders aren't found inside joints).
Did anyone contact the author of the RFC to let him know the protocol has been implemented? He's listed as: David Waitzman EMail: dwaitzman@BBN.COM Maybe someone should send him a pingflock....
"We are not saying the OOP is bad, per se;" Hmm...interesting URL you chose then...