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Towards the Future of Surgery

Part of the book series: New Paradigms in Healthcare ((NPH))

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Abstract

Modern medicine and, in particular, surgery can nowadays be considered as an advanced technological activity. Today medical and surgical practice and healthcare, in general, cannot be separated from technology and the doctor–patient relationship is usually filtered by technological interface.

Even if there is still a lot of confusion between cybernetic, bionic, robotic, artificial intelligence, and many other trendy concepts, one thing is sure: the development of body–machine interfaces that provide a link between the human and an external or implanted machine may be capable not only to replace functions, but also to improve human capabilities.

Bionics, cybernetics, robotics, and biotechnology, in general, are developing many fascinating ways of integrating our biological system with mechanical devices through neural-computer interfaces, such as limbs prosthesis, tissue regeneration, neurostimulators, pacemakers, a lot of monitoring and therapy regulation sensors (cardiac function, pressure, glucose level, brain activity, etc.), vascular neuromodulation, artificial kidney, synthetic tissues, cochlear implants, bionic eye, exoskeletons, and many others.

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  1. Emergency Surgery, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy

    Jacopo Martellucci

  2. Department of Management, Venice School of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

    Francesca Dal Mas

  3. Collegium Medicum, University of Social Sciences, Łodz, Poland

    Francesca Dal Mas

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Martellucci, J., Dal Mas, F. (2023). The Bionic Man: From Neuromodulation to Visual Prosthesis. In: Martellucci, J., Dal Mas, F. (eds) Towards the Future of Surgery. New Paradigms in Healthcare. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47623-5_17

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