{"id":218,"date":"2007-10-03T20:10:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T01:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/10\/03\/robotic-catheter-technology-cleveland-clinic-predicts-big-2008-innovation-impact\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T22:54:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T03:54:10","slug":"robotic-catheter-technology-cleveland-clinic-predicts-big-2008-innovation-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/10\/03\/robotic-catheter-technology-cleveland-clinic-predicts-big-2008-innovation-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic Catheter Technology &#8211; Cleveland Clinic Predicts Big 2008 Innovation Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drum roll, please &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The innovation that will have the biggest impact on health care in 2008: robotic catheter technology.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the prediction of a panel of Cleveland Clinic doctors. Clinic doctors pared down a list of about 100 of today&#8217;s coolest medical innovations to what they believe will be the most important in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robotic Catheter Technology\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/robotic-catheter-technology.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"195\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A robotic system &#8212; the da Vinci System made by Intuitive Surgical Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif. &#8212; was the hit exhibit of this year&#8217;s summit. Passersby took turns using a virtual reality-like station and viewfinder to manipulate a set of tiny tweezers to make stitches on a plastic model of a heart.<\/p>\n<p>The Clinic&#8217;s No. 1 innovation for next year is similar to the da Vinci System, except that the tiny tools are introduced to body cavities &#8212; such as inside the heart &#8212; through tube-like catheters.<br \/>\nRobotic catheter technology systems enable surgeons to work in places where their hands don&#8217;t fit.<\/p>\n<p>Such a flexible robotic system could be used for urology, cardiology, cardiac surgery and other specialty procedures, according to the Clinic panel.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitral-valve-repair"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}