Healthcare IT News August 14, 2025
Two remote liver procedures were completed despite long signal delays.
A team of Chinese surgeons in Tibet has remotely performed robotic surgeries on patients more than 2,000 miles away via satellite connection.
The team developed a remote surgical operation control system that remains steady and precise despite long connection delays. They set out to prove that robotic telesurgery could be safely done over wide distances using satellite connection.
HOW IT WORKS
A geostationary orbit satellite connected a surgical team console in Lhasa, Tibet, to the patient-side robotic system in Beijing, China. Major liver resections were performed utilising a robotic system provided by MicroPort Medbot on two patients: a 68-year-old liver cancer patient and a 56-year-old with benign hepatic hemangioma....
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