There surgery it is changing its face and preparing for the technological leap. A challenge that sees the Italian specialists at the forefront, this time leading other countries in the leap towards the future of Medicine. The Italian and international experts gathered to take stock of the training of young people, the brain drain and the possibilities offered to the patient today by the ‘magicians’ of the scalpel. in Rome for the conference ‘Digestive Surgery – surgeon between soul and robot’.
“In the last 30 years there has been an evolution of surgery thanks to technological progress, there are universities that integrate the surgery course with one of technological engineering and tomorrow we will have doctors also engineers. So, in the near future, patients will be better operated. and before, they will not have cuts and scars as they once did. They will be at the center of this technological revolution “, highlights at Adnkronos Salute Antonio Brescia, professor of general surgery at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology of the Sapienza University of Rome, and president of the fifth edition of ‘Digestive Surgery – surgeon between soul and robot’.
According to Massimo Carlini, elected president of the Italian Society of Surgery, “the real novelty is that the ‘novelties’ in surgery no longer come from abroad, but depart from Italy, which plays a fundamental role in all technological innovations: from the new definition of surgical procedures to the most avant-garde innovations not only in Europe. Decades ago we looked to the US or other countries to know what we would do in the future, today we are the ones to chart the future “.
There is more and more talk of virtual reality in the operating room and of remote interventions. Will a patient be operated on with the surgeon connected from another city or country? “In a completely experimental form this has already happened – replies Carlini – In 2001 the Lindbergh operation was a complete tele-surgical operation performed by a team of French surgeons located in New York on a patient in Strasbourg. But today with networks 5G will further reduce the latency time between the remote surgeon’s gesture and the action on the robot “.
Another aspect is that of virtual reality. “Holography and suspended images, hands that move in the air with non-existent objects that operate electronic and robotic computerized systems – suggests Carlini – These tools are already in an advanced experimentation phase and will also be applied to surgical rooms. However, there is a problem, the costs. Italian universities are training medical-bioengineers precisely to be ready to use this technology “.
However, a problem remains, for years there has been an alarm about the escape of doctors from the specialization in Surgery. What should be done? Is there a risk of not finding more valid specialists in the future? “Unfortunately this is a reality, in recent years we have witnessed a brain drain and this I am sorry as a doctor, professional and citizen – warns Brescia – we invest money to prepare colleagues who then leave Italy. There are mistakes of planning of health policy training, in some specialties such as surgery there is no love and passion as there once was because there are purely Italian problems, such as complaints against health professionals, defensive medicine. This – he concludes – induces many young people who are studying medicine not to choose ‘the scalpel’ preferring other ways “.
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