Robotic Technology Used In Emergency Room - Horizon: Surviving a Car Crash - BBC Two

More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ylxg8

Ground-breaking new technology is being tested at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, to increase the speed at which expert advice can be brought to medics dealing with time-critical injuries from car crashes.

Robotic technology like this heralds a remarkable new approach to trauma medicine.

But today, there's a surprise in store...

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• Trauma
• Medicine
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• Memorial
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• medics
• Horizon
• Surviving
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[texasvc]

this is amazing technology. Imagine how much this will be helpful in a war situation, where you might not have all kinds of specialists in the battle field, and assistance like this can save lives. This was used to help the victims in Haiti after the big hurricane last year. Doctors in Miami were able to assist their colleges in Haiti. In a hurricane, tornado...where you might have so many victims this will help so many people so much faster.

[texasvc]

The robot is not faster than a human and no doctor would rather be sitting in the office with a patient next door . This technology WILL save many lives. And anybody who thinks that TRAUMA doctors are lazy...you have NO RESPECT for what they do for our community. Shame on you!!!! Google search TELEMEDICINE and understand how this works.

[IM1StealthPilot]

I think that while this would make the procedures more efficient, there is still too many other reasons to have a physical doctor there. There's only so much you can learn from a patient's condition by a camera look, and complications can be much more quickly found when you're physically there, looking at every point on the patient.

[spawnser00]

jajajajajajajajajaja and if i close the door what happens ??

[AceNHobart]

this is idiotic, docs need to be here to perform procedures, this is like one doc telling another doc what to do

[heartlessvietboy]

We need technology now that stops bleeding. It's very possible. Eliminating Loss of blood is crucial to the survival of the Victim.

[MrJOHNNY1688]

thumps up if u thought that was real before u saw it was fake!

[MrJOHNNY1688]

That was cOOl...LOLL

[cess186]

if this was to seriously be implemented in EMS, it would change emt's from not only providing priority interventions, but also they would be videographers.

[nottinghamization]

How long will it be before someone has an accident and gets treated by a group of poorly qualified staff recieving instructions from a robot in order to save cash.

[mdkchen]

New technology? Trialled here for the first time? Strange how I remember seeing this 2 years ago being trialled in London on one of your own programs, BBC. Google "Superdoctors".

Also...I fail to really see how ground-breaking this is...it's basically a TV on a stick. The portable version does seem to have potential though...but if you're going to limit use to trauma rooms, wouldn't it be better to have permanent cameras and screens?

[TheIrregularVerb]

@messidona1989 yup :D du?