How is remote surgery realized?

The scene of traditional surgery is that the doctor in the operating room holds a scalpel or other medical equipment and operates on the lying patient under the shadowless lamp. So how is remote surgery realized?

First of all, there should be a series of equipment on the operation site: communication computer, surgical robot, on-site video and audio monitoring equipment; On the doctor's side, that is, where the operator is located, there should also be corresponding equipment: communication computer, video display, audio terminal, operation computer (or remote operating system).

At the beginning of the operation, the high-definition video equipment and recording equipment at the operation site take pictures and record the situation on the spot, and transmit it to the distant doctor through the communication computer. Doctors know everything about the operation site through their own communication computers, such as the patient's status and the readings of instruments and meters. According to these information, combined with the operation plan, the operation instructions are issued by the operation computer, and the instructions are transmitted to the operation robot at the operation site by the communication computer. According to the instructions, the robot began to operate on the patient, such as injecting drugs and performing surgery. Doctors can know the specific implementation situation in real time through video and audio equipment, and can send various operation instructions to the robot at the operation site in time according to the specific situation until the whole operation is over.

Telesurgery has been paid more and more attention because of its advantages of high precision, good safety and enhancing doctors' cognition of the operation process.