“NURSE! YOU PRESSED THE ‘CUT UP RARE STEAK’ BUTTON!”
Supposedly he had a 99% survival rate, if he had been operated on in a conventional fashion.
There’s a documentary on medical devices on Netflix.
These robots are used with a day or two’s worth of training.
Avoid.
This is a prime argument against a government run healthcare system.
This was a first time use of new equipment in a risk procedure to operate on a human heart. Patient not advised this was an experimental first time procedure. Surgeons assigned not trained in use of the equipment. A competent surgeon would have refused to do the operation knowing he wasn’t qualified suggesting the licensing and education process in the UK government health care system is deficient. No process in place to ensure surgeons undertaking the operation are competent and properly trained in the new equipment. Supervisors leave during the most critical point in the procedure. No one is accountable for failure.
Surgeons Sukumaran Nair and Thasee Pillay should be fired for incompetence. Of course government employees are never fired. These “surgeons” are probably doing heart surgery today.
It’s going to be a real sales job to get the next volunteer.
The machines are finally taking over.
That’s progress.
The robot was probably making French fries the next day.
Just wait for the headlines when a sex robot kills someone
No way to unplug or reboot?
Humans have always had a neurotic tendency to put too much faith in their own creations, whether they are called “artificial intelligence” or “robots”.
Sorry, but the work of man cannot be more intelligent than man.
Surgical “Robots” have been around a long time and work very well. Patients have less blood loss, shorter hospital stays and better out comes. I provided anesthesia care for a lot of robotic cases. The problem wasn’t the robot but the surgeon operating it. It is like blame ng car wrecks on cars when it is really the loose nut behind the wheel.
Do you want Skynet?
Because this is how you get Skynet.
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Writer could have more properly stated this as a last-time-use robot.
I knew someone that was a programmer for a medical equipment company. He left the job because the amount of testing and safety stuff made the development cycle really long and boring.
The article says the failure was mostly if not completely due to untrained and not-present doctors. No mention of how the machine itself failed.
The machine put stitches into places where it wasn’t supposed to. I’d think a person would need to guide the machine while it was stitching.