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Space age surgery
bullshot
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This past Friday l had hernia repair surgery and it was a robotic procedure. The following video is very interesting if you aren't familiar with the process (l was not). Anyway, it workd and I'm still here. Never thought I'd see this first hand.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ak79WNH54A
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
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@bullshot your link wasn't clickable.
Thank you for fixing it for me.
Wait, another daVinci invention?
First, glad to hear your procedure was successful, second thanks for the video. I'm having a robotic procedure tomorrow morning, not for a hernia, but they are using something similar to fix an issue I am having. My understanding for mine is the doctors will look at a live screen and Identify what needs to be done and mark the area to be fixed and then the robot part will carry out the rest of the process. Medicine has sure changed over the years…
Glad they got you fixed up, @bullshot
Best wishes, @Ruger4me
Wishing you the best outcome tomorrow. If its the same machine, it will look like a giant spider. Most surgeries are Doctor controlled but what I understand is that some are autonomous after the doctor "marks the spot".
Mine is over and was a success but I still don't have complete confidence in a damn machine messing around my vital components. :-)
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Glad surgery went well, Friend just had a robotic prostate removal. No issues and very quick recovery. Sure hope I don't ever need a robot to work on me.
Had a catarack removed and a new lense Friday morning. I was out cold but I can't say who or what did the work but it is nothing short of a miracle.
I was wide awake for both my cataract procedures. The first one, I was more scared than I had been flying combat missions. Turned out to be nothing. Went from seeing to being in a kind of kaleidoscope, and then seeing again. Weird, but not scary at all. (The drugs helped!)
Doc said you will be in a "twilight".
I said if you don't mind, Mr. T me. He must have as all I remember is them adjusting the pillow under my head then getting up out of the chair and walking to the car.
Medical technology is advancing at warp speed.
I've had two hernias repaired. One on each side. One the old fashioned way and the other one was laparoscopic. That was back in the '90s and so far they are both holding.
I had hold of one end of a piano lifting it when the first one happened. And the other one I was lifting an electrical manhole cover and I felt the burn. The surgery went fine but it was pretty dang uncomfortable for about the next week afterwards.
had a co-workers get a 4 way bypass via robotic surgery. They cut either 2or 3 small one inch incisions through his ribcage and everything else was done through these small incisions. I know from my bypass it was close to 6 months before I could return to work and the best part of 2-3 months before I was able to bend and lift small weights pain free.
He told me he was ready to go back to work after 2 weeks only restriction was lifting, they didn't want to tear any stiches on the inside!! I think it was about a month later he went back to work with only the weight restriction for light duty, he could do anything else he wanted.
They can even replace heart valves now through the arteries. It's called Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.
When they put the stents in my Widowmaker artery it was 100% blocked. The first photo shows the 100% blockage and the second photo shows it flowing like a river. I asked the doctor how that was possible to have that main artery blocked 100%? He said the heart just found a way to reroute the blood. He also said it just wasn't your time to go.
And yet, many don't trust vaccines. Go figger.
Absolutely amazing, hillbille and smitty
I guess it's great UNTIL IT ISN'T.
Dependence on AI/robotics/Jules Verne sort of technology just adds to the opportunities for catastrophic failure.
As of yet, the government is not in charge of laproscopic surgery. Vaccines be dambed.
Smitty500mag
“They can even replace heart valves now through the arteries. It's called Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.”
I just happened to have the TAVR ^^^^^^ procedure. Awake the whole time. Went in thru the right femoral artery, shoved the below ‘chicken’ wire into the old aortic valve and mechanically expanded it to function like the original equipment !! The valve leaflets are from bovine tissue. The company sent me this valve as a souvenir.
So, you got cow parts …………………………….. 😕
Forge, for the win of most incredible.
Yeah, but I think from a ‘bull’ ,,,,,, when I drive by cows my upper lip curls up and my nostrils flare out and I want to paw the ground. ,,,,,, 😂
I just spit on my screen. You get a promote. LOL!!!!!
I recently had my gall bladder removed by going through my belly button. After the procedure, I asked the doctor if it was a boy or girl. That was repeated many times as it circulated through the operating room.