Silicon.com: US doctors perform op using video and a robot

[Owen Blacker]

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Read this and reminisced some...  :)

> HEADLINE: US doctors perform op using video and a robot
> PUBLISHED: 12:34pm on Thursday 20th September 2001
> CHANNEL: Future technology
> AUTHOR: Mark Graham
> SERVICE: http://www.silicon.com
> 
> TEXT OF STORY FOLLOWS:
> 
> Woman's gall bladder removed from thousands of miles away...
> 
> Doctors in the US successfully removed a patient's gall 
> bladder 14,000 km away in France with a remote robot arm, 
> completing the first major trans-Atlantic telesurgical operation.
> 
> Surgeons in New York were linked up to another surgical team 
> in France by a video and high-speed fibre-optic line giving 
> them full remote control of a surgical robot arm.
> 
> Professor Jacques Marescaux, of the Louis Pasteur University 
> of Strasbourg, who led the team said the successful operation 
> lays the foundation for future operations being carried out 
> for patients anywhere in the world.
> 
> There was a slight time lag between the surgeon's movements 
> and the return video image displayed on his monitor of 155 
> milliseconds, inside the estimated safe lag-time of 330 milliseconds.
> 
> The operation, carried out on 7 September, was all over 
> within half an hour and the patient - a 68-year-old woman - 
> was discharged two days later.
> 
> For related news, see: 
>  Digital TV is good for your health
>    http://www.silicon.com/a45371 
>  Patient data still at risk as health bill overturned
>    http://www.silicon.com/a44244 
> 
> STORY ENDS
> 
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