Developed a robot that became a revolution in surgery

British experts create a surgical robot in the hope that their invention will become truly a revolution in medicine. According to the BBC, thanks to this device, doctors can perform complex procedures.

Today, they are only possible with the use of surgical intervention.

I-Snake robot is a long tube, which contains the micro-motors, sensors and tools for surveillance. This highly flexible unit intended primarily to simplify the coronary artery bypass surgery, but it can be used to diagnose bowel and other organs, which penetrate without surgery is very difficult to.

Initially, the device will be tested in the laboratory, but soon the specialists are going to launch its application in patients. To develop the appliance Imperial College London has received a grant of 2.1 million pounds ( more than 4 million dollars).

' Unparalleled opportunities to obtain images and other data, combined with the availability and sensitivity of i-Snake will allow for more complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures than those that are possible today, ...

' Among the financial advantages to be gained from the use of i-Snake, an earlier and less expensive treatment at a lower need for surgery, more rapid postoperative rehabilitation, reducing the time of the operation itself, and not amenable to estimate the benefits of improved patient care and quality of life ' .

Dr Ted Bianco of the medical charity Wellcome Fund agreed to a colleague. ' Gone are the days when the operating rules of a surgical scalpel. The future of surgery for smart devices like i-Snake ', - he said.

Considering all these factors, experts today are working to do to avoid the need for a scalpel. One possible way - the so -called endoscopic transluminal surgery, suggesting medicinal use of natural openings in the human body.

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