A photo from open sources it is believed that surgical robots are more more reliable than the doctor’s hands, as they are able to produce as much as possible accurate and accurate actions when performing medical operations. However, this does not mean that such a machine is incapable accidentally harm the patient, or even just kill him.
American Specialists from the University of Chicago, Rush analyzed data regarding surgical robots throughout to the world. It turned out that over the past thirteen years because malfunctions or errors in the work of mechanical surgeons died one hundred forty-four inhabitants of the planet.
Researchers found that between 2001 and 2014 about ten thousand complex operations using robots. Approximately one and a half thousand surgical interventions were accompanied errors in the operation of the equipment. One hundred forty-four operations led to lethal due to the fault of electronics.
Among the causes of patient deaths are sparking and ignition of medical machines, getting into the bodies of diseased parts robots, as well as uncontrolled movements of laser scalpels.
It is noteworthy that in May of this year, American experts from University of Washington analyzed cybernetic the safety of the robot surgeon “Raven II” and concluded that the device can be attacked by hackers if desired. The latter, as it turned out, are able, using the Internet, to take medical equipment under your control and do with the person on the operating table is all that you think about.
It turns out that such a technique is still far from ideal and cannot guarantee complete safety to the patient. As, in fact, live surgeon. So is it worth breaking spears? ..
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