Surgeons in Dundee and Florida have completed what is believed to be the first remote-controlled thrombectomy on a human body. Using robotics from Sentante, Prof Iris Grunwald performed the procedure on a cadaver housed in a separate facility in Dundee, while hours later Dr Ricardo Hanel repeated it from more than 4,000 miles away in Jacksonville.
The team says the breakthrough could transform stroke care by giving remote regions access to specialists within minutes. Dundee’s status as a global training centre made it possible to test the full procedure on cadavers with simulated blood flow, showing every step can already be done remotely.
So…:
Which remote-operated robotic solutions could be relevant and valuable to apply within your field?
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