Grounds of depersonalization 1. Remote regions in the developing world. – not depriving people of contact with their surgeon or doctor 2. Visual contact relieve anxiety Future robots make you to talk with several doctors through it Surgery Da Vinci surgical system Benefits In brain surgery Canada’s Neuro Arm In future Developed by us firm intuitive Surgical, Currently used at 22 hospitals in Britain Approved for thoracoscopic (chest) surgery, cardiac procedures with adjunctive incisions, urologic gynecologic, pediatric, and trans oral otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat) procedures.
Minimally invasive surgery Less pain Fewer complications Quicker recovery times for patients Allows the surgeon to operate remotely on the patient’s brain while accessing a near-real-time magnetic resonance imaging feed. Surgeons can perform common neurological procedures such as biopsy and the manipulation of soft tissue Robots carry out routine surgical procedures is possible adv. : Lower ranking medical staff than surgeons are left to supervise patients concerns: need to make sure that whoever’s there can cope when something goes wrong. A robot in the pharmacy (p. 30).
Robot in pharmacy RIVA (Robotic IV Automation) Could do the job in a safer, cheaper and more efficient manner Fully automates the preparation of IV solutions in hospital pharmacies. “Many errors have resulted from this manual compounding, and much microbial contamination has been documented in this compounding. ” (Luci A. Power, senior pharmacy consultant at San Francisco based Power Enterprises) Filling a need (p. 30~ 31) Where the idea for a pharmacy robot came from? (p. 30) Intelligent Hospital Systems (p. 30) Challenges (p. 31) Database (p. 31) 1) relational database.
Market research confirmed that pharmacist wanted an in-house automated system that could mix IV drug compounds (Thom Doherty, chief technology officer at Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Intelligent Hospital Systems Formed in 2004 to develop such a robot, with mechanical, electrical and computer engineers to do the job. Pharmacists wanted to be able to continue working with the lab equipment they already used > engineers had to design a robot that could handle pieces of equipment that weren’t uniform in size or shape. 1) Hold the data that determines to robot’s movements for handling equipment.
That also stores the processing steps used to prepare the IV products. RIVA uses its database to understand how to accept input products (syringes, IV bags and vials) that are of varying dimensions 2) To securely store drug order information, confidential patient information and other important data. Quality control (P. 31) What RIVA uses? Which can robots do? Hospitals with manual processes? Money saving Sterile air and high-intensity UV light for sterilization, and it has cameras, vision systems and scales to ensure the end products are correct.
Prepare between 40 and 60 doses per hour, It uses its database of information to verify and label the doses it dispenses (Doherty) Will prepare IV drugs once or twice during a 24-hour time frame, and much of the medicine will go to waste as doctors change prescriptions. Hospital used to waste 20% to 30% of the IV medicine it made, but because of RIVA’s efficiency, which cuts the lag time between when a doctor orders a prescription and when the medicine is used, that figure is now less than 10% (Jew) Robo-Nurse Why robo-nurse is needed?
The Tug robot What it is? Tester How it used? benefits People can mix pills up, provide too many or too few, of fail to dispense them quickly enough. Sometimes controlled substance disappear from hospitals, bound for the black market Medication error lead to some 1. 5 million Every year, at a cost of $3. 5 billion, a report by the National Academies found. Drugs should be given within the “golden hour” – when medications are most effective Navigate bustling hospital corridors. Size of a large pizza box, have a built-in scanning laser and map of the hospital for navigation.
A drug cabinet sits on top of the Tug, and each drawer can be opened only when an authorized nurse brushes their thumb across a bio metric scanner Marc Summerfield, the pharmacy director of the University of Maryland Medical Center has first tested. “the doctor writes and order, it needs to get recognized by the nurse; then it goes to the pharmacy, where the pharmacist reviews it, then it goes to the lab, where a technician fills it, then it goes in a bin, then it sits and wait for delivery. ” (Marc Summerfield) Medication cycles drop from 74mins to 30. Better suited to distributing controlled substances, like morphine.