Recently, DroidOrtho Spine, a minimally invasive orthopedic surgical robot for the spine developed by Songjiang enterprise Shanghai Zhuoxin Medical Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhuoxin Medical"), was selected into the "2023 Shanghai Intelligent Robot Benchmarking Enterprise and Application Scenario Recommended Catalog". It is worth mentioning that at the end of last year, DroidOrtho Spine Spine Spine Surgery Robot completed the first remote surgery and successfully completed the "5G+ robot-assisted" percutaneous minimally invasive nail placement surgery for patients.
At 9:30 a.m. on November 17 last year, remote real-time surgery officially began. Jiang Zhaolin, deputy director of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Anqing No.116 Hospital, reported the patient's condition to experts at Shanghai Tongji Hospital via the 5G network. According to the patient's condition and the real-time transmitted images on site, the team of Professor Cheng Liming from the Department of Orthopedics of Tongji Hospital carried out real-time surgical planning, nail positioning according to the patient's condition, and instructed local surgeons to perform screw implantation operations. At 10:30, under the remote operation, the most critical step of the operation was completed, and the four screws were accurately implanted in turn. In only 1 hour, the operation was successfully completed, and the blood volume was only 5 ml. During the whole operation, the surgical signal transmission was smooth, and the Shanghai experts controlled the surgical process and the patient's situation in real time hundreds of kilometers away, ensuring the stability, reliability and safety of the operation. The typical characteristics of 5G network with high speed, large connection, and low latency have been fully demonstrated in the field of remote surgery.
Professor Cheng Liming said that the first remote 5G-assisted spine robotic surgery uses 5G communication technology to realize that doctors in different regions can jointly plan and participate in the operation before surgery. The spine surgery robot has a very good navigation and positioning function, which plays an important role in improving the accuracy of spine surgery and reducing the operation time, which can truly realize the remote output of high-quality medical resources and improve the quality of surgery in other places, especially in grassroots hospitals. It is hoped that in the future, clinical medicine and computer science will be better integrated to promote the progress and development of clinical medicine, especially surgical technology.
Zhao Wen, director of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery of Anqing 116 Hospital, said that this operation is different from the past remote consultation to guide surgery and remote surgery planning, but through 5G communication technology, from "remote planning" to "remote operation", and truly realize the real-time operation of the orthopedic surgical robot with remote control. For patients, no matter how far away they are, it is as if they are in it, and the breakthrough of this technology has undoubtedly greatly saved the time, energy and financial costs of local patients to go to higher-level hospitals, so that more local patients can enjoy high-level and high-quality medical services.
It is reported that the success of this operation marks the official entry of Zhuoxin Medical's DroidOrtho Spine Spine Spine Spine Surgical Robot remote surgery technology into clinical practice, which enables the surgeon's arm to extend thousands of miles away, and patients can obtain high-quality medical resources without space and time restrictions, which is conducive to the sinking of high-quality medical resources, narrows the gap between hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, realizes the homogeneity of doctors' service quality, and reduces the economic burden of patients. The Droidortho Spine Spine Spine S The introduction of this technology not only improves the accuracy of surgery, but also reduces the risk of surgery, bringing safer surgery to patients.
Text: Li Yubo.
*: Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Editor: Mao Zhenlong.