Robot arm removes gall bladder
Shenzhen, , Apr. 27 (UPI) -- A computer-controlled robot arm has been used to removed a woman's gall bladder in an operation performed at a South China hospital.
The surgery took place Monday at the Shenzhen People's Hospital in South China's Guangdong Province, Xinhua, the Chinese government news agency, reported. The operation was controlled from a distance by a surgeon seated at a computer.
The hospital purchased the medical robot system known as Zeus last year from the United States at a cost of $1.5 million. Surgeons in Shenzhen first tested the system on animals.
Dr. Zhou Hanxin, president of the hospital, told Xinhua robots have several advantages over human surgeons. They are not subject to tiny handshakes that occur as people breathe and can reach into areas inaccessible to human arms.
Zhou said physicians in the United States could even control robots being used in Chinese operating rooms. In 2001, doctors in France and the United States cooperated on a trans-Atlantic robotic operation.
Shenzhen, , Apr. 27 (UPI) -- A computer-controlled robot arm has been used to removed a woman's gall bladder in an operation performed at a South China hospital.
The surgery took place Monday at the Shenzhen People's Hospital in South China's Guangdong Province, Xinhua, the Chinese government news agency, reported. The operation was controlled from a distance by a surgeon seated at a computer.
The hospital purchased the medical robot system known as Zeus last year from the United States at a cost of $1.5 million. Surgeons in Shenzhen first tested the system on animals.
Dr. Zhou Hanxin, president of the hospital, told Xinhua robots have several advantages over human surgeons. They are not subject to tiny handshakes that occur as people breathe and can reach into areas inaccessible to human arms.
Zhou said physicians in the United States could even control robots being used in Chinese operating rooms. In 2001, doctors in France and the United States cooperated on a trans-Atlantic robotic operation.
Comment