• Question: Do you think that surgeon controlled machines are the way forward in the operating theatre?

    Asked by sarahf100 to Charlotte, Dhvanil, Frank, Jim, Leila on 12 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Dhvanil Karia

      Dhvanil Karia answered on 12 Mar 2013:

      I would be more interested in completely automated surgeries instead after fully testing the safety aspect of course. This way the surgeons can attend more complicated surgeries and the regular minor surgeries can be handled by the junior staff and the machine. I think this is a part of future and machine assisted surgeries will be a part of it 🙂
      Check this for proof
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00qrsyz

    • Photo: Leila Nichol

      Leila Nichol answered on 12 Mar 2013:

      I have seen this and had control of it myself! Google the DaVinci robot, that’s the one I’ve seen in use. These are excellent machines, they mean minimal surgical scarring and it means you can do very intricate surgical procedures to high precision (much more than doing by hand), and sewing sutures, all inside the patient, watching on screen, it’s amazing! Yes I think this is the way forward

    • Photo: Jim O Doherty

      Jim O Doherty answered on 12 Mar 2013:

      Certainly – robots can easily be more accurate and precise than a human and as the guys said already, there are surgical robots already in hospitals, and they did 200,000 surgeries in 2012. At the moment the surgeries they use them for are a bit basic, but I think in the future they can be used to perform very complicated procedures

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