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Synopsis: 5. medicine & health: Medicine: Surgery: Surgery:

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and doctors can even perform surgery remotely. IBM also predicted real-time speech translation now exemplified by products like Samsung s Galaxy speech translation.

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#Advantages, potential of computer-guided spinal surgeryin a series of research studies Cedars-Sinai spinal surgeons show that a new method of computer-guided spine surgery is beneficial for spinal reconstruction

and the need for follow-up surgeries they write. Computer-guided surgical navigation technology delivers on quality

while a patient is in surgery. The images are transferred to a computer which displays them on overhead monitors that allow precise tracking of surgical instruments as surgeons insert screws for reconstruction

and perform minimally-invasive surgery. This approach represents a major leap forward for instrumented spine surgery said Terrence T. Kim MD an orthopedic spine surgeon in the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center and expert in the computer-guided navigation field.

We're looking at the future. Joining Drs. Johnson and Kim as study co-authors are Doniel Drazin MD a senior resident in the Department of Neurosurgery and Robert S. Pashman MD a clinical associate professor and orthopedic spine surgeon at the Cedars

and computer-aided system used during minimally invasive surgery increased the accuracy of screw placement into vertebral pedicle bones.

A third study determined that the image-guided technique can be useful for other minimally invasive procedures including thoracic endoscopic spine surgery to remove tumors infections

The final two articles offer an overview of computer-guided surgery of the spine including its use in revision

or redo spine surgeries that are often the most complex; and the potential future use of robotic spine surgery with computer navigation.

The special issue of the journal can be accessed at: http://thejns. org/toc/foc/36/3story Source:

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Futurist Fixes 1. Telemedicine and Robotic Surgery. As originally covered in the FUTURIST: Allison Okamura of the Johns hopkins university Department of Mechanical engineering says the real potential of robotic surgery

or rather computer-enhanced surgery is to reduce the impact of surgeries (make them less invasive,

less costly) and improve patients health. Haptic systems are a particularly promising area of research in the field of robotics.

This sort of research will enable surgeons to better perform minimally invasive surgeries. Surgical robots can also photograph,

after the fact. oewhen you do assisted robot surgery, you re already tracking the tools that are inside the patient,

A Hawaiian heart doctor named Benjamin Berg dictated a complicated surgery over an Internet feed for a Guam man located 3, 500 miles away.

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