Telesurgery

Written by renowned experts from Australia, Canada, the United States, Asia, and Europe, Telesurgery explains technical issues, digital information processing, and provides collective experiences from practitioners in different parts of the world who perform a wide range of telesurgery applications. This includes transatlantic telesurgery and telesurgery for urology, brachytherapy, Heller myotomy, etc. There are numerous graphics and clinical photographs throughout, which illustrate and illuminate the text well, providing high-quality visual reference material. Telesurgery lays the foundation for the globalization of surgical procedures, making possible the ability of a surgeon located in one part of the world to operate on a patient located in another. Developments in telesurgery are progressing at great speed. As a consequence, there is need for a broad overview of the feld. Tis frst-ever book on telesurgery is presented in such a way that should make it accessible to anyone, independent of his or her knowledge of technology. Te text is designed to be ua sle l d pr bo y fessionals, including surgeons, nurses, allied health professionals-, and com puter scientists, and not just medical practitioners. In a very short time, driven by technical developments, the feld of telesurgery has become too extensive to be covered by only a small number of experts. Tere f Teo le rse u,rgery has been written with chapter contributions from a host of renowned international authorities in telesurgery (see the Table of Contents and the List of Contributors). Tis ensures that subject matter focusing on recent advances in telesurgery is truly up to date. Our guiding -hope dur ing this task was that as editors of multiple chapters and authors, we could still write with a single voice and keep the content coherent and simple. We hope that the clarity of this book makes up for any limitations in its comprehensiveness. a.pdf......Page 1 Front Matter.pdf......Page 2 1. Introduction to Telesurgery.pdf......Page 23 2. Computer-Assisted Remote Surgery.pdf......Page 31 3. Telesurgery in Urology.pdf......Page 42 4. Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Brachytherapy for Lung Cancer.pdf......Page 54 5. Robotic-Assisted Heller Myotomy.pdf......Page 74 6. Robotic-Assisted Surgery - Low-Cost Options.pdf......Page 87 7. The Tele-Echography Robot- a Robot for Remote Ultrasonic Examination.pdf......Page 110 8. Information Support for Telesurgery.pdf......Page 119 9. Haptics in Telerobotic Systems for Minimally Invasive.pdf......Page 130 10. Robotic Surgery in Ophthalmology.pdf......Page 142 11. Telesurgery and Computerized Smell Simulators.pdf......Page 157 12. Telementoring in Endocrine Surgery.pdf......Page 168 13. Training in Telesurgery- Building a Successful Program.pdf......Page 175 14. Telesurgery and the Law.pdf......Page 185 15. Telesurgery- An Audit.pdf......Page 192 Back Matter.pdf......Page 198 Written by renowned international experts, this book explains technical issues, digital information processing, and provides collective experiences from practitioners who perform a wide range of telesurgery applications. The book lays the foundation for the globalization of surgical procedures, making possible the ability of a surgeon located in one part of the world to operate on a patient located in another. Explains technical issues related to telesurgery as well as digital information processing. This book provides collective experiences from practitioners in different parts of the world practicing a range of telesurgery applications