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Do you have any idea on where these medical robots used?


Well, I have heard about medical robots yesterday, so I’m just very eager to know about medical usage. I need a complete package that starts with history and ends with applications in medical field. Do you have any idea on where these medical robots used? Actually, I’m also planning to make a PowerPoint presentation later on the basis of received info. I need details regarding manufacturing and related cost of medical robots also. I have only three days left for making my paper. Please help me.
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Rizwana Ismail | Jan 20 2012

The Medical robotics was first experimented with during the 1980s, in the field of urology. These Robotic arms were developed, in order to resection the prostate and In 1980s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration began to explore the use of robotics for telemedicine. Where these telemedicine involves using robots to allow a medical practitioner to monitor and treat a patient without being in the patient's physical presence. From 1989 to till now, several doctors and scientists developed medical robots to help with many types of surgeries, and finally the Food And Drug Administration began to approve their use and advances in robotics are continually being made available. The main idea of using robots in medicine is to provide improved diagnostic abilities. Robots are currently used not just for prostate surgery, but also for hysterectomies. It is also verily used in the removal of fibroids, joint replacements, open-heart surgery and kidney surgeries and so on. They can be used to provide organ biopsies. The physician can see images of the patient and control the robot through a computer where she/he does not need to be in the room, or even at the same location as the patient that is that a specialist can operate on a patient who is very far away. Along with improved patient care, another aim of making medical robotics mainstream is to cut down on medical costs where some of the robotic surgery systems cost more than $1 million to purchase and $100,000 for a year or more to maintain. Money is well saved by the number of days the patient stays in the hospital.

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