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Now Robots to Perform Delicate Eye Surgeries

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Now Robots to Perform Delicate Eye Surgeries

The technologies are advancing daily, and the medical science is utilizing these technological advancements to an extreme level. The eyes are one of the most sensitive organs of the human body. It irritates even if a small eyelash falls on the eye-ball. So, an operation inside the eye is something that is quite difficult to imagine. Most people are scared about the words “Operation,” “Surgery” and “Cuts. They still get a hope when some renowned medical surgeon performs the surgery, but it is worrisome to have one’s eye operated by a robot.

It is a well-known fact that computers and robots are more accurate than humans. Humans are more prone to make mistakes, and a mistake during a surgery may even cause the death of the patient or some serious injury which can stay on for the lifetime. But during surgery, the patient feels more confident with the hands of a professional surgeon and they know that even if those knives and scissors make a wrong cut, the experience of the surgeon is going to rectify them and cure the patient with extreme precision and care. On the other hand, robots are something which is emotionless and does not know what it feels like to have pain.

To the scientists and doctors, the main aim is to increase the level of accuracy. An experiment was performed by the surgeons where they used a robot to operate inside a human eye to improve the precision of a delicate surgery while removing the fine membrane growth on the retina. Doctors informed that if it is left unchecked, then such growth distorts vision and can ultimately lead to blindness in the affected eye.

The surgeries were so far performed by the eye surgeons only. While keeping in mind, the narrow opening of the area to operate and the delicacy of the retina, the doctors decided to take the help of robots to perform this. Medical professionals and researchers suggested that even highly skilled surgeons can make unnecessary deeper cuts which can lead to minor hemorrhage and scarring and ultimately leading to visual impairment. They added that even the pulsing of the blood through the surgeon’s hand is quite enough to affect the precision of the cut.

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