London: It won’t be surprising
if one finds robots performing c-sections to deliver babies. Robots may soon
replace surgeons to perform sophisticated surgeries.
As per the report, the Robots
controlled by technicians are expected to conduct vaginal surgeries and
operations on the bowel, heart, and lungs. Within five years we may be able to
see such a miracle happening led by healthcare assistants.
Specialists and surgeons will remain in charge of
operations but may not always need to be in the room. Even the person without
having any professional degree can be trained to perform C- section with the
machine.
The commission’s report also claims that major
cancer operations could become a thing of past because screening DNA will pick
up diseases earlier before they become metastatic. Moreover, severe forms
of arthritis can be diagnosed early and it may reduce hip and knee transplants.
According to Professor Dion Morton, a member of
the commission, these big, set-piece operations will become less common as we
are able to intervene earlier and use more moderate interventions.
The Commission on the Future of Surgery, set up
by the Royal College of Surgeons in 2017, has predicted how it sees operations
changing in the future, the Daily Mail reported.
However, it is a matter of concern and
controversy too. Patients may not gain enough confidence to have their complex
surgeries performed by robots. One such case was reported where a 69-year-old
man in Newcastle died when a robot was used to carry out his heart surgery in
2015.
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