Who doesn’t love medical robots? Combine that with an inforgraphic and you have must see content. At least that’s what I thought about when I saw the following medical robot infographic. We’ve come a long way with robots in healthcare, but the best part is that I think we’re just beginning. Enjoy the medical robot infographic below.
Thanks to healthcare-administration-degree.net for creating the infographic.
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Just because something can be done, we must scrutinize whether or not it should be done. The da Vinci system is a case in point.
–A 2010 study found that 56.8 percent of surgeons surveyed anonymously said they had experienced irrecoverable operative malfunctions while using the da Vinci system
–Women were more likely to be harmed during the robotic procedures
–cost $1.5 million to $2.5 million
–“This whole issue is symbolic of a larger problem in American health care, which is the lack of proper evaluation of what we do,” Dr. Martin A. Makary, an associate professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins and the senior author of the paper.
–researchers at Johns Hopkins were able to find examples of botched operations that were not reported to the agency. They concluded that adverse events associated with the da Vinci were “vastly underreported.”
–questions about the quality of training provided
well.blogs.nytimes.com – September 12, 2:32 PM