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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 11:49:29 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: David Maxwell <david_maxwell () mac com> Date: May 20, 2006 11:39:03 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Autonomous robot does heart surgery. Whoah ...There doesn't seem to be any 2nd source for this. The International Academy of cardiology site has no news of the procedure, nor is there a Boston meeting on their calendar of congresses.
Skeptically, D Maxwell On May 20, 2006, at 8:52 AM, David Farber wrote:
] From: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com> Date: May 19, 2006 6:52:10 AM PDTTo: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>, JMG <johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com>Subject: Autonomous robot does heart surgery. Whoah ... <http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=329265> Saturday, May 20, 2006 at 12:02 AM EDT Italian robot does heart surgery[foto] World first for technology now able to work by itself (ANSA) - Rome, May 18 - A robot surgeon has forthe first time carried out a long-distance heart operation completely byitself . The 50-minute surgery, which took place in a Milanese hospital, wascarried out on a 34-year-old patient suffering from atrial fibrillation,or 'heart flutters' . The operation was initiated and monitored on a PC in Boston, USA, by Carlo Pappone, head of Arrhythmia and Cardiac Electrophysiology at Milan's San Raffaele university. Also watching the operation - a world first - were dozens of heart specialists attending an international congress on arrhythmia in the American city . "This operation has enabled us to cross a new frontier," Pappone said afterwards, suggesting that in the future people could have access to sophisticated surgery wherever they were" . The Italian expert has used the robot surgeon for at least 40 previous operations, some of which have been described in detail in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology . The novelty of this latest experience is that the robot was able to conduct the entire procedure by itself. In the past it needed specific orders from its operator along the way . "It has learned to do the job thanks to experience gathered from operations on 10,000 patients," Pappone said, explaining that the expertise of several human surgeons was used to boost its software ."The robot can now recognise the type of patient and the required methodof operating," he added . The prototype robot developed by Pappone and his team in Milan, considered a major achievement for Italian medical research, is to be put on sale later this month .<http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/ 2006-05-18_1186367.html>------------------------------------- You are subscribed as david_maxwell () mac com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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