Robots · July 2014Gaffe level: Typo
A Fancy Surgical Robot Turned Out to Be No Better Than a Human Surgeon
A Memorial Sloan Kettering study found robot-assisted bladder surgery offered patients no advantage over the old-fashioned open kind. The million-dollar robot was, surgically speaking, a wash.
Source: MassDevice
A Toronto Hospital Performed Canada's First Robotic-Assisted Hybrid Procedure for Atrial Fibrillation
St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto performed the robotic surgical stage of a hybrid ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation, a Canadian first. The first patient, who had lived with the condition for nearly three decades, recovered and returned home within days.
Source: Hospital News