The diagnosis is received in XNUMXD technology and in HD quality, which is sent via the iPhone to the doctor. From a distance of meters from the patient, the doctor performs the surgery, with the help of a robot and a tiny camera that reaches the smallest and deepest places of the human body. This is the present. What will the future look like?
Rambam Hospital press release
B, 54 years old, suffered from a problem of prolapse of the pelvic organs. When she made an appointment for surgery at Rambam, Dr. Lior Levenstein, a senior gynecologist at Rambam, introduced her to his colleague in the operating room - "Da Vinci", the surgical robot.
What was seen until a few years ago as a scene taken from a futuristic movie, is quickly becoming a widespread reality. Robotics is becoming established as an integral part of the operating room of the 2000s throughout the western world, and it seems that this trend will only increase in the future.
What will the operating room look like in 20 years? Which new technologies will dictate the boundaries of medicine? What will be the role of the surgeon in the future? The profile and characteristics of the future operating room will be attempted this week by doctors, engineers, architects and leading biotech people from Israel and the world, who will gather tomorrow, Wednesday, May 18.5, at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, for a study day dedicated to the "Operating Room" in 2030".
Among the lecturers who will take part in the fascinating conference: Prof. Dan Ben Hamo, head of the anesthesia department at the hospital
Kremlin Bicetre in Paris, who will lecture on the field of anesthesia in the future operating room. Prof. Andreas Meltzer, head of the Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology in Scotland who will lecture on imaging devices in minimally invasive and non-invasive surgery. Prof. Naomi Bitterman from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technion, who specializes in the design of operating rooms, will speak at the conference about the design of the futuristic operating room, and about groundbreaking wireless equipment that will improve work efficiency. Dr. Alon Wolff, director of the Biorobotics and Biomechanics Laboratory in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion, will speak about the relationship between the doctor, the device and the patient and about developments in the field of robotics. Prof. Yoram Kluger, director of the surgical array at Rambam will lecture on the place of the human surgeon in the age of technology and robotics and many other lecturers and topics. One of the fascinating lectures will be that of an executive from the health division of the American technology giant GE, which is also sponsoring the symposium. The company is the main manufacturer of advanced imaging devices (CT and MRI). Dr. Bengt Nielsen, who serves as the research director of GE's healthcare division in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, will provide a unique look into the technological future of the operating room in 20 years.
According to Prof. Rafi Biyar, Director of Rambam, in the future the surgeon will be able to perform his work from anywhere in the world: "The surgeon will be able to use a robot as an extension of his hands and perform the surgery remotely," says Prof. Biyar, "The technology will allow for a kind of conference surgery, with the participation of Surgeons from different countries, to solve problems that may arise during surgery, for consultation or study. Already today, about 80% of prostate surgeries in the US are performed by the robot, as well as most of the gynecological, oncological and uro-gynecological surgeries, and we anticipate that in the future the robot will be integrated into additional surgeries and will reach additional areas of the human body."
While the surgeon's place in the futuristic operating room has been pushed to the robot's operating position, Dr. Philip Abaksis, a senior anesthesiologist at Rambam, and the organizer of the conference, assures that there is no substitute for a person in the operating room: "It is no coincidence that the initiative to discuss the future operating room comes from the anesthesiologists." Dr. Abacsis points out, "In 20 years, there will probably be more robots than doctors here, and maybe the surgery in Haifa will be performed by a surgeon based in China, but anesthesiologists will always have to be in the operating room. Even in 2030. In terms of equipment, hospitals are always lagging behind because technology is developing at a tremendous speed. Hospitals have a tendency to look five or ten years ahead, but they must build infrastructure with a future thinking of at least 20 years."
And what will happen to the surgeons and classical surgery in Dr. Robot's kingdom? According to Prof. Kluger, despite the advantages of surgical robots, their proliferation in operating rooms could destroy the knowledge and skills the surgeon needs to save lives: "The surgeon is also needed in the emergency room and in procedures where the robot is not involved. The new generation of surgeons grew up in a mechanized environment, and with a new medical philosophy that may change the therapeutic reality in the future."
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Data accuracy (cameras inside the body), convenience, speed of consultation of several doctors at the same time remotely and more
I still don't understand what the big advantage of this surgery robot is?
It seems that the robot merely mediates between the doctor's hands and the surgical instruments, so why can't the doctor operate those instruments directly with his own hands? Why does he need that robot in the middle? What does it give?
The format requires uniformity in the size of the headings and sub-headings.
Oh, what a fool I am. I have now read the rest: still only the bolded title on this page.
Everything I said earlier with the addition: "This is the present. What will the future look like?”
That makes everything I said ridiculous!
No,
You know what's ridiculous?
It is ridiculous that the summaries on the main page are in total a limited number of characters from the title on the inner page. I suggest organizing an adequate summary for each article on the main page. This is no longer just an Israeli site; This is the Israeli website for science if not the.
A little script.
I don't care if you delete my comments.
I haven't read it yet!
I've only read the summary on the main page and I think it's appalling.
In one sentence it is written:
"2030", "HD", "XNUMXD" and "iPhone".
Maybe we meant to say "2015".
You don't really think that in almost 20 (!) years from now, iPhone will still be considered something cool..? Or usable at all.?
So it is true that it will take time for the technologies we gossip about and are beginning to see today, to permeate all the operating rooms in the world (first of all, modern medicine will reach all over the world...), but still, when Jules Verne predicted the future, he did not use the most popular words of that period, but in unthinkable inventions.
Refresh us something, invent, dream and innovate, what do you tell us that the future is exactly what every technology enthusiast today can imagine for himself
Itzik C:
As a follower of House I tell you that he does not use intuition.
In fact, he demonstrates the scientific method very well because all his solutions are created by the method of elimination - he presents a theory - presents its predictions and checks if they hold.
When they do not exist, he dismisses the theory.
That way he is left with the correct solution at the end.
Shahar What does a red paw and a doctor who uses intuition have in common?
They only exist in fairy tales or the movie House. The vast majority of them are sealed and do not add anything beyond the minimum.
They only care that you continue to breathe without quality and without emotion.
The robots will also come to the emergency rooms, assist in diagnosis and minimize
Errors of judgment resulting from lack of knowledge and fatigue or simply not paying attention to details
Small but important. Analysis based on hundreds of parameters and information analysis
Based on a huge database will overshadow any doctor in the emergency room.
Still in the visible range only a human doctor can listen to a patient
and feel in his intuition things that data does not show