Criteria A:

Robotic surgery has been used for the past 5 years. Many of the operations were very successful and people who have been operated on preferred it to regular surgery (McKINNON, 2008). It was faster, easier, and less painful and the patients were going to work faster than they thought they would (McKINNON, 2008).

Although many robotic surgeries were very successful, there is a big reliability issue with having robots operating on patients. It could cost people their lives and it is hard to prosecute someone for it. Do people prosecute the company that robot was made in, the commission who chose to buy that robot for that hospital, or the actual operating team? That has a large impact on the whole surgical world because reliability also affects the robots as well as the surgeons.

The use of robots in surgery comes in two ways. The first I that the whole operation is done using robotics and the surgeon on controls the robot. Or the surgeon performs the surgery as usual but a robot aids him in the surgery such as holding the equipment or using them with delicate parts of the surgery.

But there are advantages for using robotic surgery. It makes easier to do the surgery because it uses less people to control the robot and the robots could – in most cases – be more precise in the surgery. And there is a long term effect, such as the patients have fewer scars and it is less painful.