{"id":87,"date":"2023-12-20T07:10:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T07:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aer-network.net\/?p=87"},"modified":"2023-12-20T07:13:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T07:13:15","slug":"enabling-innovation-in-global-medical-care-through-robotic-telesurgery-trial-conducted-across-international-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aer-network.net\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Enabling Innovation in Global Medical Care through Robotic Telesurgery Trial conducted across International Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SingAREN, with international and local partners, enabled the first remote robot telesurgery trial between Japan and Singapore<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 Oct 2023 – NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) and National University Hospital (NUH) collaborated with Fujita Health University (FHU) in its first robotic telesurgery trial between Singapore and Japan, from 9 to 11 October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leveraging Japan\u2019s first surgical robot, clinician-scientists from NUS Medicine and NUH remotely performed a gastrectomy (stomach surgery performed for cancer) from a surgeon cockpit in the Advanced Surgery Training Centre at NUH in Singapore, the teaching hospital of the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surgeons\u2019 movements were transmitted, directed, and replicated by a robotic operation unit located in Japan as well as haptic feedback in the reverse direction. These signals were transmitted via a low latency, high bandwidth, resilient international network that meets the requirements of the device to ensure smooth and realistic remote surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[From left] Prof Koichi Suda, Prof Ichiro Uyama, Dr Kim Guowei and Prof Jimmy So (seated) are the four gastric surgeons leading the gastrectomy demonstration, a collaboration between NUS Medicine, NUH and Fujita Health University. (Photo Credit: National University Health System)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Surgeons from NUH and FHU demonstrating how the console unit in Singapore controls the four robotic arms in Nagoya, Japan.
(Photo Credit: National University Health System)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The advanced network that enabled this telesurgery trial between Singapore and Japan, was established through the cooperation of the following research and education networks (RENs) <\/strong>under the framework of domestic collaboration, CINJI (Coalition of Interoperable Networks for Japan and International), and international collaboration, APOnet (Asia Pacific Oceania Network).<\/p>\n\n\n\n