New robot for hospital diagnosis of stroke is approved by the FDA

Release date: 2013-02-01

Imagine the following scenario: In order to determine if you have a stroke, you can only be taken to the hospital for examination. Now, everything has changed. A 5-foot-high, remote-controlled robot sneaks to your side and has a face on its screen. It’s your neuroscientist. The consultation started. .
It sounds like a night sky, but the world's first hospital automatic TV medical robot has received the US FDA's 510 (k) approval. These robots are in use. It is used in a wide range of applications, from stroke diagnosis and intensive care unit prevention to surgical cooperation. The role of the robot is to greatly improve patient outcomes, reduce the cost of care, and provide patients with the medical services they can afford.
InTouch Health, Inc., of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Bedford, Mass., have developed this RP-VITA-like TV medical robot.
Although this type of instrument was previously operated by a joystick, RP-VITA is already an instrument that is remotely controlled by a physician relying on an iPad program. The robot itself is also equipped with a sensor to prevent it from colliding with other objects while moving. InTouch's spokesperson Rosalie Wright said that for the 5-foot-tall robot, patients and health care workers had an initial impression in just a few seconds: "There was some dubiousness at the beginning, but once you saw that so many people got With its help, their views have changed. "Once the patient and the medical staff and the distant medical experts rely on the robot to establish a dialogue, this core function immediately impressed, and the impression of the shape of the robot immediately faded.
She added: "The robots that people think of can often replace doctors, but in fact, this robot is just the right way to get the right care at the right time and in the right place."
Hospital TV medical robots can improve the continuity of treatment for community patients. For the same purpose, township hospitals that lack the resources of large medical institutions can also apply such products. Some medical systems also apply it to intensive care units to compensate for the shortcomings of understaffed personnel. Some small hospitals or out-of-network hospitals under the Geisinger Medical System also use it to assist in overnight shift monitoring for ICU patients. Wright said that 10% of hospitals in the United States are using this type of robot.
Its primary application areas are remote stroke monitoring and companies working on remote stroke monitoring network maintenance. The reason is because stroke is the leading cause of death in the United States. According to data from the Center for Disease Control, the number of people dying from stroke each year is about 800,000. The window for stroke, diagnosis and treatment is very limited. The use of anticoagulant drugs at the right time is critical to broadening the treatment window. However, this requires a neuroscientist prescription. Many hospitals are not able to have a neurological expert sitting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The Michigan Stroke Monitoring Network is the first project that InTouch Health has been involved in in this area - InTouch was founded in 2002. It uses a hospital as the core node covering the community and rural hospital network. The core node hospital provides 24-hour stroke experts and neurovascular expert services. The experts will make accurate diagnosis and timely treatment for suspected stroke patients. The network health professional will read the scanner or monitor and communicate with the patient like a doctor who appears on the patient's bed.

Source: Kexun

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