Surgery
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Well, it reminds me a little bit of
surgery.
Sometime during or after surgery, bacteria latch onto the surface of a medical device, stay there, and cause a serious infection; and this makes it impossible for the body to heal.
Take a look at these surgical wires used to close a patient's sternum following open-heart
surgery.
So a couple of years after this picture was taken, Paul went into hospital for some minor surgery, and he developed a superbug-related infection, and he died.
He needs immediate surgery, seven units of blood, a mechanical ventilator to help him breathe and several more operations along the way.
But the
surgery
he eventually devised was not for the faint of heart.
So how did Barraquer’s
surgery
work?
In corrective laser eye surgery, surgeons rely on excimer lasers.
So how does laser eye
surgery
actually work?
Advances in laser technology continue to make vision correction
surgery
more effective and accessible.
And I know it might sound crazy, using lasers to drill holes in your skull, but back in 2017, people were OK with surgeons shooting lasers into their eyes for corrective
surgery
So when you're already here, it's not that big of a step.
Very interesting studies done on people recovering from surgery, who found that people who faced a brick wall versus people who looked out on trees and nature, the people who looked out on the brick wall were in the hospital longer, needed more medication, and had more medical complications.
A talk about surgical robots is also a talk about
surgery.
So in order to give you some kind of a perspective of where we are right now with surgical robots, and where we're going to be going in the future, I want to give you a little bit of perspective of how we got to this point, how we even came to believe that
surgery
was OK, that this was something that was possible to do, that this kind of cutting and reforming was OK.
Now we've got the dawn of interventional
surgery
here.
We really are seeing the dawn of interventional
surgery.
These guys confined their
surgery
to fairly superficial injuries.
These were folks that traveled from village to village, town to town, doing
surgery
sort of as a form of performance art.
Because we were in the age before anesthesia, the agony of the patient is really as much of the public spectacle as the
surgery
itself.
And he is credited with doing over 4,000 of these public surgeries, wandering around in Europe, which is an astonishing number, when you think that
surgery
must have been a last resort.
General in 1847, a whole new era of
surgery
was ushered in.
This was truly a revolution in
surgery.
And infection would continue to claim a majority of surgical patients until the next big revolution in surgery, which was aseptic technique.
And they came back to their American clinic and they said they had learned it was as important to wash your hands before doing
surgery
as it was to wash up afterwards.
You could now start doing
surgery
everywhere, on the gut, on the liver, on the heart, on the brain.
The era of the "big surgeon, big incision" had arrived, but at quite a cost, because they are saving lives, but not necessarily quality of life, because healthy people don't usually need surgery, and unhealthy people have a very hard time recovering from a cut like that.
Laparoscopy is doing this kind of surgery:
surgery
with long instruments through small incisions.
And it really changed the landscape of
surgery.
It looks very different from what you're expecting
surgery
to look like.
So, smartypants, why isn't all
surgery
being done this way?"
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