[IP] more on Autonomous robot does heart surgery. Whoah ...

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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:

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> From: Randall <rvh40@insightbb.com>
> Date: May 19, 2006 6:52:10 AM PDT
> To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>, Dewayne Hendricks  
> <dewayne@warpspeed.com>, JMG <johnmacsgroup@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Autonomous robot does heart surgery. Whoah ...
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> <http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=329265>
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> 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 for
> the first time carried out a long-distance heart operation  
> completely by
> itself .
>
> The 50-minute surgery, which took place in a Milanese hospital, was
> carried 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  
> method
> of 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>
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