One of the most interesting things about human life is that it makes you use different skills at different points. This allows us to nurture various facets along the way, therefore helping us in achieving a more collective brand of growth. However, the whole thing is actually a lot easier said than done. You see, ensuring that our use of all the skills is productive can become a real challenge over time, and if there happen to be any missteps on our part, it can very much result in stunted individual growth. Such a risk is just too massive, so for curbing it a little, we would bring some new ideas into the human fold, with technology being one of them. Having technology around the block was an instant game-changer, as alongside curbing the said missteps, it also provided an ingenious edge to our every pursuit. Now, when you stumble upon an idea so groundbreaking, it’s only right to have the whole spectrum get a slice of it. This ended up sending technology within the healthcare sphere, and consequentially, a new concept called medtech was born. Since starting out, medtech has gone on to revolutionize the way we look at healthcare. In fact, MIT’s latest development proves that it is still doing so.
The researching team at MIT has successfully developed a telerobotic surgical system, which can be used to remotely treat a patient who is suffering from a stroke or aneurysm. The device isn’t just based on helping someone get medical attention right away, but it also takes into account how endovascular surgeons aren’t always present in small clinics or remote hospitals. Hence, in an event of such sort, they can use the telerobotic surgical system to treat patients from any given location. As per certain reports, the system is specifically designed in a way that makes it easier to install around, let’s say, a small hospital. It consists of a robotic arm, which has a magnet at its end. The surgeon can control this magnet to bend the magnetic tip of a guidewire, a component that actually travels through the blood vessels to get to a clot or aneurysm.
“We imagine, instead of transporting a patient from a rural area to a large city, they could go to a local hospital where nurses could set up this system,” said Xuanhe Zhao, one of the MIT researchers. “A neurosurgeon at a major medical center could watch live imaging of the patient and use the robot to operate in that golden hour. That’s our future dream.”
So far, the researching team has tested the system in a model of cerebral vasculature, and according to the details, they were effective in guiding the wire and removing all the artificial clots.
