Informative Essay On Robot Assisted Surgery

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Technology has improved healthcare It’s Wednesday morning you have to go to Maine Medical center to have surgery on your wrist because you broke it playing sports. You are worried, but your parents tell you not to be because when they were kids wrist surgery meant your wrist wasn’t functional for a full four months, and on top of that they cut your wrist wide open. Today you will have robot assisted surgery, and you will have only have a tiny incision. That eases your stomach a little bit. You will only need about three stitches where as your parents needed 27. You are very thankful for technology. Three hours later you are walking out of the hospital with your hand and wrist wrapped. You don’t really understand why your parents are so impressed …show more content…

The incisions are only like a fourth of an inch. Which makes for a speedy recovery, and much less rehab. It also decreases the likelihood of an infection because the cut is much smaller. The smaller incision also means little to no scarring. The Robots. According to uchealth.com “Robotic surgery is an advanced form of minimally invasive or laparoscopic (small incision) surgery where surgeons use a computer-controlled robot to assist them in certain surgical procedures.” Robots that are controlled by doctors can be much more precise by using a 3D camera connected to its fourth …show more content…

The patient does not need to travel to see the doctor. The doctor is able to use a robot and look through a screen to do this oppearation. This also allows the doctor to be much more precise because the robots hands won’t shake like a doctors. According to http://allaboutroboticsurgery.com/surgicalrobots.html “This means that a specialist can operate on a patient who is very far away without eith3er of them having to travel. It can also provide a better work environment for the physician by reducing strain and fatigue.” During long surgeries surgeon will receive hand tremors, and that will effect the

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