A Nurse's Role in a Technology-Driven Environment

Robotics can be virtual and/or mechanical objects that we use in everyday activities. Even though robots have been around since 1960’s. In the healthcare field we have become more dependent upon them since the 1980 's. Robots have been used to assist people in varies everyday task in laboratories and operating rooms. Some examples their usage are intervention with giving medication, assisting kids with autism, transferring and lifting patients. Although robots have made some of the healthcare fields task easier there can be questions with such technology which can impact ethical policy and non-human touch.

Robotic surgery is new compared to cell phones and laptops, however the surgical practice has been around since the 1980’s. The first recorded use of robotics in surgery was in 1985, when the PUMA 560 robotic arm was used in a brain surgery (neurosurgical biopsy). This surgery laid the foundation for a plethora of groundbreaking operations and a brand new scientific branch pursued into the twenty-first century. In 1998, after several years of development and advancements, Ralph Damiano Jr. performed robotically assisted heart bypass surgery (Ditlea 2). This surgery is regarded as one of the most difficult operations a surgeon can perform. The use of robotics in surgery remained throughout the remainder of the twentieth century and

As technology improves, surgical robots are rapidly gaining support among both doctors and patients across America. Today more than 900 hospitals have the da Vinci robot which is double the number in 2007. (Freyer, 2010) Da Vinci robots were first approved by the FDA in 2000 for prostate removal, but now da Vinci robots are used for a variety of other surgical procedures (Freyer, 2010). Robot assisted surgery offers advantages such as smaller incisions, reduced blood loss, less pain and faster healing time (Vijay, 2010), as well as making surgery less demanding for the surgeon. Robotic surgery involves many obvious advantages but the impact of cost, access, and quality must

Medical robots - Robots used in medicine and medical institutions. First and foremost - surgery robots. Also, some automated guided vehicles and maybe lifting aides.

In 1989 Computer Motion was set up and started working towards revolutionizing surgical procedures. The credit for the first pure robotic surgery in the world goes to PROBOT which was developed at Imperial College London and was used in prostatic surgery in the year 1992. In the same year ROBODOC developed by Integrated Surgical Systems was used in hip replacements. Computer Motion developed AesopTM which was considered to be the third hand of the operating surgeon and could hold an endoscopic camera. This was mainly utilized in minimal laparoscopic surgery and was controlled by foot pedals. New users found it hard to master the pedals. However, in 1993 Aesop 1000 was granted FDA approval becoming the first surgical visual aid device to be granted such recognition. In 1996 an improved version which could be controlled by voice command was developed and named Aesop 2000 .Improved dexterity of arm was the main feature of AESOP 3000 which was developed in 1998. Aesop HR has the ability

Over the last few years, technology has changed tremendously and it has definitely influenced almost every area in the healthcare setting. Modernized technological advancements in healthcare have come a long way in terms of enhancing and delivering patient care. Not only does new technology in healthcare affect patient care, it also affects nurses, doctors and specialists. Updated technology is being integrated in nursing due to the increase of medication errors, lack of patient safety and to increase the quality of patient care. Robotics is an example of one of the emerging technology that has significantly impacted the future of medicine especially in nursing. The increase usage of robotics has been seen due to many healthcare worker shortages,

A Massachusetts doctor estimated that the average American will undergo about 5.97 surgical procedures in the operating room in their lifetime, and with the population rising, surgeons in the United States will need to perform more surgeries than ever before (Lee). Since the beginning of modern medicine, new technology has been rapidly introduced to aid surgeons. In 1985, the first robotic surgery occurred, and at the turn of the 21st century, the FDA approved the da Vinci Surgical System (Whitlock). Patients today can undergo robotic-assisted surgery from the da Vinci Surgical System, but this type of surgery remains the center of controversy. Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) is safe, ethical, and a good option for both patients and surgeons because it uses small incisions which decrease blood loss, it can improve recovery time and reduce complications, and it can improve surgical control.

The robot used at that time was designed by PUMA, named PUMA 560 and was used for a neurosurgical biopsy. After the success of the surgery the same PUMA robotic system was used for transurethral prostatic resection. This robotic system was followed by the FDA approved 1990 AESOP system for endoscopic surgeries by Computer Motion. Since then there was a rapid breakthrough in the technology. The initial advantage that helped bioengineers to pursue this technology was high precision and accuracy, especially in non-invasive systems. Additionally, minimal invasion was also noticed to be the advantage with robot assisted surgeries. But it wasn’t until 2000 that the real breakthrough happened in this field and this breakthrough is accredited to Da

Technology changed the delivery of nursing care in a few different ways. First, a patient’s condition can change at anytime which means the plan or care will change as well. Treatment needs to be changed or certain things need to be discontinues such as IV fluids or medications. With the physicians being able to access the patients chair via computer or cell phone can allow for the nurse to follow through with these changes immediately. The advantages to this technology is simple, better patient care and better patient

Within the medical profession there, are many areas where the desired equipment can be used in many different ways. Amputees can use mechanical prosthetics. Nurses have explored the idea of using robots to increase the quality of care that is given to different types of patients whether they are critical or present a bio hazard of some sort. The physicians are more of a special case given that their usage of these robotics deals with extensive research and re-education. This creates a whole new market where only the most qualified of physicians can truly begin to make their mark with a more advanced skill set that can only cause a higher demand.

Robotic surgery was first imagined from the idea that surgeons can operate on a patient without being in the same room, which was explored by NASA and the military in the 1970s and 1980s. The first ever surgery system that uses robotic technology is the da Vinci Surgical System. The da Vinci Surgical System was approved by the FDA in 2000. This system includes a camera arm and mechanical arms with surgical

As we all know that the use of robotics has been considered as one of the major revolution in the health care industry and it has been used for wide range of health care facilities all over the gloabe. Robots are used in many applications ranging from manufacturing of drugs, dispensing of the drugs and medicines to the patients in the hospitals and also for monitoring of the important vital statistics of the patients. Now a days,

With the ever-expanding medical field, I believe the next breakthrough will be advancements in robotic assisted surgeries. While it exists today, and helps in certain routine medical procedure, there is a huge potential in this field of biomedical engineering. The current procedures entail the use of a robotic mechanism that copies the movements of a doctor on a microscale that allows for less invasive surgery. With an almost tripling amount of procedures being performed since 2007, the potential of the surgical system is indeed beneficial. With the implementations of the current system on a larger scale, the medical field will expand exponentially. As the procedures become more common, the cost will decrease as competition in the market

Many wonder how effective a robot would be in the field of medicine. Many people are uneasy with having to get surgery from a human surgeon let alone a robot surgeon would be out of the question for patients for they fear

According to Mary Anne Dunkin’s article Surgery Goes Robotic, the invention of surgical robots was intended for military use only because it would provide a way for doctors to perform safe surgeries within the battlefield. The use of a surgical robot within the military would have allowed doctors to perform emergency surgeries within the battlefield (Childress). The only issue that was detected was the delay that occurs among signals. Unfortunately, “… it turned out that the delicateness of the robot would not lend itself to being out in the deserts of Iraq or the Sudan,” as Dr. Stubbs mentioned to Dunkin. Within Dunkin’s article, she mentions that even though the purpose of surgical robots was for military use only, “robotic technology could play a crucial role in surgeries performed in traditional operating rooms,”(Dunkin). About thirty years ago, the usage of robotics in medical procedures seemed farfetched because one would have never thought that the use of robots in the medical field would become the answer for many surgeons’ problems. For surgeons, the invention of the surgical robot gave them hope for a better future within their profession.