The Technological Future Of Surgery

The future of surgery offers an amazing cooperation between humans and technology, through which surgeries reach high levels of precision and efficiency.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” This quote by Arthur C. Clarke pretty much sums up the future of surgery. It offers fantastic cooperation between humans and technology, which could elevate the level of precision and efficiency of surgeries so high we have never seen before. AI, surgical robots, 3D printing and new imaging methods are already used on a wide scale of procedures. But there’s much more to the future of surgery than that. 

Although robotic-assisted surgeries are not yet the mainstream way of operating patients, these procedures are already used in 70+ countries around the world, millions of times each year. According to some widely used – although hard to source – statistics, some 15-20% of the surgeries in the United States have robotic assistance.

With AI technologies rising, surgeons can enlist additional technological aids, as algorithms will certainly play a role in their future lives, from helping in surgical planning to designing custom implants. It is time to see how new technologies will transform this medical specialty.