From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Sep 23 2001 - 08:37:52 MDT
I think its time we returned some of our attention to the march
of technology towards goals aligned with some of our own.
Prepress from Nature:
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Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery
Surgeons in New York have successfully used remote-controlled robots to
remove a gall bladder by laparoscopy from a 68-year-old woman in Strasbourg,
France -- the world's first transoceanic human operation. For the operation,
which lasted for under an hour and involved data transfer over a round-trip
distance of 14,000 km, the control console was linked to the robots via a
high-speed optical-fibre network which relayed information through dedicated
connections using ATM technology.
Because of the time taken for the transfer and video-coding of data,
the surgeons' movements appeared on their screens with a delay of
around 155 milliseconds, well inside the estimated safe lag time of 330 ms.
This advance should remove geographical constraints on specialized surgery
as well as help improve surgical training.
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Think Indian surgeons doing surgeries in U.S. Hospitals.
Robert
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