Robot in Operation

On 21 January Wednesday a team of British researchers said robot is as safe as working with a human. The statement was come out in an analysis after using a robot to operate a camera in gall bladder operations that underscores the effectiveness of latest robot technology in surgery which may become a mile stone in health history.
In the Cochrane Review journal, Kurinchi Gurusamy and colleagues, researcher the Royal Free Hospital in London, said, though robots might not be ready to take over, they offer immense potential to do things such as allowing surgeon to perform emergency operations without having to wait for any human assistant.

In the analysis the research group looked at key-hole, or laparoscopic, surgery in which an assistant operates a camera that acts as the surgeon’s eyes during gall bladder removal. This type of surgery is fairly common in the developing countries where approximately 10% to 15% of people develop gallstones. Already, robots are used in thousands of different procedures, and experts of this sector predict technology will increasingly take a vital role in the operation room in order to boost understaffed hospitals worldwide. In the research, Gurusamy and colleagues analyzed statistics from five studies relating 453 people to observe how well robots performed the situation in place of humans.

Hopefully enough the findings showed no considerable difference in the number of gall bladders that broke during surgery. The evaluation looked at different type of technologies, including Intuitive Surgical Inc’s market-leading da Vinci system, and got no differences in deaths, the need to switch to more complicated surgery, whole operating time, and length of stay in hospital. However, few critics question the cost-effectiveness of robots, they say it will increase the cost of operation whereas others say with the passage of time it will become reasonable.