Surgery: First fully-automated surgery room to perform a surgical procedure that was previously only...

...done by surgeons and is approved by the American Medical Association and the US Surgeon General.  No humans (except the patient) are allowed inside the surgery room [to keep it as sterile as possible].  The surgery room must be able to clean and sterilize itself before and after the operation.

Future Challenges: Approved by the American Medical Association and the US Surgeon General, the first fully automated surgery room to anesthetize a real human patient and:

Detect, locate, and remove:

1) A bullet from a leg or arm, clean the wound, repair the damage to the flesh, sew it up, and bandage the wound.

2) Shrapnel from a leg or arm, clean all the wounds, repair the damage to the flesh, sew up the wounds, and bandage the wounds.

3) A bullet or shrapnel from the torso, clean all the wounds, repair the damage to the flesh, sew up the wounds, and bandage the wounds.

4) A bullet or shrapnel from the head, clean all the wounds, repair the damage to the flesh, sew up the wounds, and bandage the wounds.

Perform a/an:

5) Breast biopsy.

6) Appendectomy.

7) Cholecystectomy.

8) Tonsillectomy.

9) Prostatomy.

10) Cataract surgery.

11) Carotid endarterectomy.

12) Kidney replacement.

13) Caesarean section.

14) Coronary artery bypass surgery.

15) Rhinoplasty.

16) Breast augmentation.

17) Breast reduction.

18) Liposuction.

19) Open heart surgery.

20) Brain surgery.

First "full-service" fully-automated surgery:

21) That can handle the fifty most common surgeries.

22) That can be housed in a container the size of a shipping container which is transportable on a container cargo ship and a flatbed of a semi-truck.  The prep and post rooms are housed in separate, attached container units.  Computer banks, back-up power generators, and a monitoring station are located in separate container units and are able to monitor multiple fully-automated, full-service surgery rooms at one time.  This is meant for use by the military as an automated version of a Combat Support Hospital (the modern-day version of Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals, which gained fame from the movie and spin-off TV show that were both titled M*A*S*H).

23) Used as CSH / M*A*S*H unit in an active combat zone.

24) Installed on a military hospital ship.

25) Installed on a military aircraft carrier.

26) Used to replace all human-surgeon surgery rooms on all naval ships of a nation's navy.  To win this future challenge, navy must have at least ten naval ships with human-surgeon surgery rooms.

27) Installed in a veterans hospital.

28) Installed in all veteran hospitals of a nation's military.  To win this future challenge, the military must have at least ten veterans hospitals.

29) Installed in a passenger cruiseship.

30) Installed in a civilian hospital.

31) First US state that has all of its civilian medevac helicopters equipped with fully automated surgeries.

32) First nation in the world to have all of the civilian medevac helicopters in its country to have fully automated surgeries.

33) First fully automated surgery installed in a civilian ambulance that is in regular service to a hospital.

34) First major city (population 250,000 or more) to have all of its ambulances equipped with fully automated surgeries.

35) First US state that has all of its ambulances equipped with fully automated surgeries.

36) First nation in the world to have all of the ambulances in its country to have fully automated surgeries.

37) First private health insurance company to only pay for surgeries done by robots and not by humans when there is a choice between the two.  [Insurance companies will do this for two reasons: 1) cheaper and 2) better success rates.]

38) First fully-automated surgery installed on a military medical evacuation helicopter that is in regular service in a combat zone.  This will require miniaturization of the surgery machine so it is more compact and light weight.  [The sooner a wounded soldier receives treatment, the better their survival rate.  The surgery machine could start and finish the whole surgery before it reaches a hospital so when the patient gets there, they are moved directly into the recovery ward.]

39) First civilian medevac helicopter in regular service to a civilian hospital that has a fully automated surgery on board.

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