Traditional surgery involves doctors in an operating room with scalpels or other medical instruments, operating on patients lying under shadowless lights. So how does telesurgery actually work?
First of all, there should be a series of equipment in the operation site: communication computer, surgical robot, on-site video and audio monitoring equipment; in the doctor's side, that is, the location of the surgical operator, there should also be the corresponding equipment: communication computer, video display, audio terminals, surgical computers (or remote control operating system).
When the surgery starts, the high-definition video equipment and audio recording equipment at the surgical site will shoot and record the situation at the site and transmit it to the doctor at the remote site through the communication computer. The doctor will know all the situation at the surgical site through his own communication computer, such as the state of the patient, the readings of the instrumentation and so on, and according to the combination of this information with the surgical program, the surgical instructions will be given through the surgical computer, which will be transmitted to the surgical site through the communication computer. Based on this information and the surgical program, the surgical instructions are given through the surgical computer, and the instructions are transmitted to the surgical robot at the surgical site through the communication computer, and the robot starts to perform the surgery on the patient according to the instructions, such as injecting drugs, opening the knife, etc. The doctor can understand the specific situation of the execution in real time through the video and audio equipment, and he or she can give all kinds of operation instructions to the robot at the surgical site in a timely manner according to the specific situation until the end of the whole surgery.
Tele-surgery is gradually gaining more and more attention due to its advantages of high surgical precision, good safety, and enhanced physician's knowledge of the surgical process.