CNBC October 2, 2019
A robot helped doctors carry out the world’s first remote heart surgery in India – a “milestone” development, according to a study published in medical journal The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine.
From 20 miles away, the surgeon controlled a robotic arm to perform heart surgery on five patients, wrote Apex Heart Institute’s cardiologists, Tejas Patel and Sanjay Shah, with Samir Pancholy, director at The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education Cardiology Fellowship.
The five patients had coronary artery disease, a condition wherein blood vessels are damaged and the heart can’t receive enough blood supply. The doctor placed a small structure in each patient’s blood vessel to open it up, which allowed blood to flow through, according to the report.
The authors noted...
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