Robot Helps Perform First Long-Distance Heart Surgery
A surgeon in India has successfully performed the first remote heart surgery on a patient who was lying on an operating table 20 miles away as published in EClinicalMedicine, a spin-off of medical journal The Lancet.
During the procedure, the CorPath GRX robot—developed by a company called Corindus—inserted a small instrument called a stent in order to open blood v […]