When performing surgery on the retina – one of the smallest and most delicate parts of the human body – the error margin is not practically prese. Surgeons should consider breathing, snoring, and eye movemes along with the involuary tremors of their hand, while working on a layer of cells less than one millimeter.
According to RCO News Agency, Researchers and surgeons of the John Moran Eye Ceer at the University of Utah and the Marcia School of Engineering have designed a highly advanced robotic surgery that can change the method of retinal surgery forever.
Paul Bernstein, a professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and retina surgery specialist at the ceer of the Moran Eye, says: “In many of the surgeries I do, I get involved in restrictions that a human can do in terms of vibration and moveme of paties and more.”
Jake About, a professor at the Departme of Mechanics and Director of the US Robotics Ceer, was the first person to call Bernstein to find a solution. “We have designed a robot that can take a micrometer steps,” About says. So, if you picture a millimeter, a micrometer is one thousandthm. Our robot can take one millimeter steps in any direction.
This robotic device is moued directly on the patie’s head using a helmet to compensate for the delicate movemes of the patie’s head and remain consta from the robot’s view. The robot also reduces the surgeon’s movemes at the surgical site in the eye and compensates for hand tremors along the surgical path.
In retina surgery, Bernstein can change the robot scale to one. Therefore, if Bernstein moves 2 mm, the robot moves 1 to 2 mm and makes retina surgery more accurate and safer. About says: In this way, things like tremors are no longer importa, because you will never face it anymore.
While this robot is still in the experimeal stages; But Abbott and Bernstein say the purpose of the device is to improve the results for paties and support advanced methods, including providing gene therapy for inherited retinal diseases.
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