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Article: `Telemedicine' foresees robots as surgeons US sponsors research into remote controls
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 8, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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CAMBRIDGE -- On the battlefield of the future, a US soldier goes
down with a gaping chest wound. The call goes out for a medic -- and
then the telesurgeon.
In this combat simulation, shown on video by a military research
surgeon at a conference last week, an electronic device worn by the
soldier pinpoints his location using the Global Positioning Satellite
system and radios it to a command post. At the same time, a
"personal status monitor" clipped to the soldier's wrist takes his
vital signs.
Medics rush to the soldier, swiping his plastic ID and information
card through a hand-held computer that records the data. Then they
place him in a "trauma pod" -- a sort of high-tech litter -- and ...