Facts and Claims essays

Facts and Claims essays According to the Toledo Blades article on Remote-Control Surgery by Luke Shockman, A doctor would have sliced a patient open just a few years ago. Physicians say a patient would have a slow and painful recovery. Now with the new age of Robotic surgery, all that can be changed. Using a remote controlled camera, incisions will be much smaller, just a few pin holes. Surgeries once thought to be off-limits are now being tried with robots. Using these new techniques could reduce a patients time in recovery and also prevent infections. Recovery time that once took 4 to 6 weeks recovery time for surgery could now only take a couple of days says one doctor at the Ohio State University Medical Center. A surgeon looks at a patients insides with the use of a remote controlled camera. This camera will display any problems on a computer screen as well as many other things. The technology is called robotic, because humans are still in charge of all the movements according to Dr. W. Randolp h Chitwood, Jr. Surgeons use voice-controlled arms are used in complex cutting and sewing arms are controlled through a computer. Surgeons have been using a similar procedure called laparoscopic. This surgery is commonly used with knee replacement surgery as well as other procedures. A patient at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center was having bypass surgery to unclog an artery supplying blood to her legs. The surgery lasted 7 hours. According to the patient when she awoke from surgery she was feeling no pain at all. She had to argue with the medical staff because she thought that she did not have the surgery done yet. She only needed to take pain medications for one night. Before her surgery she had a hard time getting around because of her leg. Now after the surgery she says she cam move around better they she could years ago. Many surgeons are still unsure about the use of robotic surgery. As the t ...