SURGICAL ENGINEERING. TECHNOLOGY AT SURGERY SERVICE.

Abstract

The operation room (OR) is a place where the engineers could, and we must, give our work and knowledge. This work presents firstly a smallsummary of the present reality of the technology on the OR, and secondly it presents two examples of applications developed by Spanish engineers for applications of surgical engineering. The material and methods section show a physically realistic simulator where surgeons can simulate and practice the laparoscopic surgical procedures and learn the skills. It is also shown a robot developed to be a intrinsically safe wrist for bringing the orientation to the surgical tool. The results section shows the first experiments, simulations and results for both developments.The main goal of the paper is to motivate the collaboration among surgeons and engineers in such a way we can give new and better systems to the surgical engineering.