What is it about?
This article aims to provide a concise overview of the benefits, challenges, and suggestions pertaining to extreme forms of telesurgery, as documented in existing publications. In the future, medical personnel will have to overcome the challenges of providing health services in extreme settings, such as on the sea, humanitarian assistance missions, battlefields, underwater missions, and space missions. The advancement of telesurgery technology over the past 25 years will gradually resolve this problem.
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Why is it important?
The use of robotic systems in health care can augment human surgeons' skills and provide accurate support for a broad range of surgical operations.
Perspectives
Over the course of the past quarter century, telesurgery has undergone remarkable advancements, which have made it possible to receive effective treatment for even the most critical cases. When providing surgical care in difficult environments such as a battlefield, humanitarian mission, underwater, zero gravity planes, or in space, it is important to have comprehensive medical support for telesurgery in case the initial plan fails.
Dr Ardalan Shariat
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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This page is a summary of: A Review of Telesurgery in Extreme Settings: A Narrative Review, Telemedicine and e-Health, February 2025, Mary Ann Liebert Inc,
DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2024.0428.
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