Dunning Joel
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.
Ann Cardiothorac Surg. 2019 Mar;8(2):274-278. doi: 10.21037/acs.2019.03.02.
What is currently described as 'robotic surgery' will undergo a transformation as rapid as the transformation from Kodak film cameras to digital cameras, from Nokia phones to iPhones, from listening to music on tape to CD then to digital downloading, and the transformation that is shortly to come from petrol cars into electric cars. We are only at the very infancy of what is currently termed robotic surgery, but in reality, is in fact just computer-assisted, instrument-controlled surgery. This article will describe the current state of robotic surgery and will then go on to look at why we will hardly recognize the surgical world in ten years' time, as novel, disruptive technology transforms our specialty.
目前被称为“机器人手术”的领域将经历一场变革，其速度之快堪比从柯达胶卷相机到数码相机、从诺基亚手机到苹果手机、从磁带听音乐到CD再到数字下载，以及即将到来的从汽油车到电动车的转变。我们目前所说的机器人手术尚处于起步阶段，但实际上它其实只是计算机辅助、仪器控制的手术。本文将描述机器人手术的现状，接着探讨为何在十年后，随着新颖的颠覆性技术改变我们的专业领域，我们将几乎认不出手术领域的模样。
