SPIDER Spreads Out Your Insides, Helps Surgeons Save Lives [Video]

My background is writing partially thought-out gadget blog posts, so you’ll forgive me this brief moment of sweet sixteen amazement:Holy cow surgeons have the craziest tools! Is the SPIDER something you surgeons accessible are regularly playing god with, or what?

Promising instrument triangulation and flexible, articulating instruments via a 2×2 system of flexible and rigid access ports, the Spider looks, to my untrained eye, to be quite the advancement on the scalpel, which I had previously thought was all surgeons needed to carve people up and remove appendices and such. Ignorant is me.

Turns accessible is so, a lot more to it than that:

Gallbladders never exited a human chest cavity so smoothly and easily.

Surgeons will even hot swap tools on the fly, while the principle SPIDER frame remains throughout the patient! Again, any real surgeons in the market who wish to throw cold water on this and say ” ho hum” please be happy to achieve this within the comments. I’ll be scheduling an unnecessary designer gallbladder surgery. [ Medgadget via Boing Boing ]

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This post is tagged: chest cavity, gallbladder surgery, gallbladders, sweet sixteen, triangulation, untrained eye