Utah University masterpiece for ease of retinal surgery

According to RCO News Agency, Researchers and surgeons of the John Moran Eye Center 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 center 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 movement of patients and more.”

Jake About, a professor at the Department of Mechanics and Director of the US Robotics Center, 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 mounted directly on the patient’s head using a helmet to compensate for the delicate movements of the patient’s head and remain constant from the robot’s view. The robot also reduces the surgeon’s movements 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 important, because you will never face it anymore.

While this robot is still in the experimental stages; But Abbott and Bernstein say the purpose of the device is to improve the results for patients and support advanced methods, including providing gene therapy for inherited retinal diseases.

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