Robot surgery is a technology being developed, this technology will allow robots to perform surgeries to human in all areas, such as general surgery, urology and orthopedics and they are saying that people could take advantage from robotic surgery as a benefit for them. The Robotic Surgery Institute promises to create new treatment alternatives for patients, they also are considering to apply the robotic surgery in heart surgeries. The goal is to bring this technology very far, by also being able to do reconstructions, supporting that robots have the advantage to provide minimal access with facile instruments, like having tiny hands something that humans can't provide.
Would robotic surgery technology be the best option for humans? is it safe enough?
http://www.cts.usc.edu/roboticsurgery.html
http://www.roboticoncology.com/robotic-surgery/
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Does this imply that robots itself will be doing the surgery or are human-controlled-robots doing the surgery? Anyways I think that robotic surgery is a great idea given that it can perform difficult tasks with relative ease and with less errors, which are crucial to a surgery. However, depending too much on robots would also cause a problem because, although maybe less than human, they are still liable of producing errors. So although robotic surgery technology is a great advancement in the medical area, we should also know how to do the surgery ourselves instead of being too dependent on the robot.
ReplyDeletethis question depends on types of robots, like chong said; whether the robot does the surgery itself or the human controlls it.
ReplyDeleteI will point out the issue about responsibility. For example if the robotic surgery (the one that human controls) is occuring and the operation was failed and patient dies,because the robot caused malfunction and did not run proprly. That case, who is responsible for killing the robot? Is it the doctor or the specialist that was running the robot, the person who built the robot or possibly the robot?
I agree with Chong and Akira on to what extent is the robot is in control of the surgery.
ReplyDeleteAlso robots perfoming incision is a great advancement because the pulse is flat, no shaking of the hand or un predicted tic, and can move extremity beyond the human reach (moving the hand farther back than humans). Yet, to depend solely on robots for surgery is to an extent unethical, because as Chong mentioned machines can also have erros
Robots in the health world? It could be very dangerous to the patients because it can hurt the patients' organs during the operations unless the procedure is safe. Robot surgery technology could be the best option to benefit the health society because it can provide 'small technology' that humans don't with them. For me, personally, I prefer to use human because if you use technology (as robot), I don't think robots has the best procedure that a human has on the process.
ReplyDeleteRobots in the health world is great innovation but i beliieve it should be tested many times before being implied on real surgeries on humans. Robots will not have any mistake since they have a flat pulse and are programmed to perform the tasks. As mentioned robots have problems like any other computer. If computer crash, why not robots? this can cause many problems and ethical issues in medicine. We should also think about robots taking over the work of the doctors. What will happen if a complete replacement is made? this can cause also economical problems.
ReplyDeleteHaving done an entire portfolio on this subject of the responsibility of having robots operate on humans and the social and ethical impacts. My real question to the matter would be that it is great and everything because of the different aspects such as precision or long distance operation. However, my real doubt will be if it will be cheaper to get an operation from mass produced robots than from a doctor? Logically it will start out to be more expensive to be operated by robots but it will become cheaper in the long run because a robot can be run 24 hours 7 days a week and do one operation after another without be affected. So if a robot will be more expensive to purchase but can do ten times as much surgeries then it should end up to be cheaper.
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