Telerobotics, Telesurgery, and Telementoring

摘要

The telecommunications revolution has offered medical professionals the possibility to transmit information of any sort while zeroing transmission time latency and annihilating spatial distances. Robotically mediated telesurgery has made it possible for surgeons to operate standing at a considerable distance from the operating table and without even touching or directly seeing the surgical field. Medical education and medical consulting have acquired new and wider ranges of applicability thanks to the introduction of teleproctoring, tele-mentoring, and teleconsulting. In the very near future telepresence surgery will allow surgeons to perform virtual operations on patients and project their manual dexterity, psy-chomotor skills, and problem-solving ability to remote locations.