Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 172 [Liberating Surgeons from the Operating Table]

This smart operating table can also be connected to external medical equipment and information systems. For example, it can transmit data from the surgical process to the hospital's medical information system in real time, allowing doctors to view and analyze it at any time.

It can also connect to telemedicine equipment to enable remote surgical guidance and consultation, allowing experts to provide surgical guidance support to patients thousands of miles away.

As a medical device that can fully replace human surgeons, its safety is naturally a focus.

The smart operating table is equipped with an emergency stop mechanism. Xiao Yu set an emergency stop button for the operating table. Once any abnormal situation occurs, such as serious abnormalities in the patient's vital signs or malfunction of surgical instruments, medical staff or patients can immediately press the emergency stop button and the operating table will immediately stop all operations to ensure the patient's safety.

In addition, there are multiple safety detection functions. Before the operation, the operating table will undergo multiple safety detections, including a search and inspection of the integrity, disinfection status, functional status, etc. of the surgical machinery, as well as a comprehensive assessment of the patient's physiological condition to ensure that the operation is performed under safe conditions.

If any situation that does not meet safety standards is detected, the smart operating table will automatically prohibit the start of the surgical procedure.

The operating table also has certain protective measures. For example, during the operation, it can automatically raise the protective cover to isolate the operating area from the external environment to prevent external contamination and interference.

At the same time, the operating table can automatically adjust the temperature, humidity and other environmental parameters of the operating area according to the needs of the operation to create the best conditions for the operation.

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At this moment, Xiao Yu was very satisfied with the holographic model of the operating table in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh: "After all, this is Blue Star's advanced technology that is hundreds of years ahead of Earth. Just tinkering with it a little bit can trigger a revolutionary breakthrough in an industry on Earth."

Surgery is an important branch of clinical medicine. With the advent of this intelligent medical operating table, clinical medicine on this side of the earth will usher in a sensational change.

Xiao Yu crossed his arms in front of him, held his chin with one hand and whispered thoughtfully: "If the operating table is mass-produced, future surgeons will not have to perform surgeries on the front line, but will be more involved in guiding and conducting theoretical research in clinical medicine..."

It won't cause the current surgeons to lose their jobs, but they will no longer be so irreplaceable.

Moreover, with the emergence of monomeric organ cloning technology and its clinical application, the overall cost of surgery will be reduced to the level of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan, and the number of surgeries required will increase exponentially.

The cost has become cheaper and ordinary people can afford it, so the market demand for surgery will increase dramatically.

With the advent of single-organ cloning technology, donor organs are no longer scarce, and organ replacement transplantation will become a common solution. Even some people who value their lives may directly replace their organs if they only have minor damage, further increasing the demand for surgery.

In addition, it will definitely lead people to "not cherish" their bodies more and dare to indulge themselves. After all, at worst they can just undergo surgery to replace a cloned organ, and the cost is affordable anyway. This will undoubtedly increase the demand for surgery again.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Yu developed this intelligent medical operating table. If there were no such operating table, relying solely on human surgeons would simply not be enough.

However, for surgeons with average abilities, although they will not lose their jobs, their social status and voice will definitely be greatly weakened because they can be replaced. It is certainly impossible to say that there will be no impact on them.

However, a small number of excellent surgeons are still very valuable clinical medical talents, because some surgical operations require human creativity, including many innovative theories, and intelligent AI does not have such capabilities.

In the future, outstanding doctors will be more inclined to conduct scientific theoretical research at the academic level. To put it more simply, they will create new knowledge and then provide it to AI to learn and apply it. In the current Blue Planet world, the clinical medicine field is developing in this way, and human participation is not required at all to perform surgery on patients.

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The next day, at Lingjing Technology Headquarters.

In the chairman's office, Yun Shu entered the office and saw Xiao Yu and said, "What do you want to talk to me about?"

Xiao Yu, who was sitting at his desk, had just finished sorting out a document. He immediately looked up and exchanged a glance with his beautiful assistant, then asked, "How many people are there in the company's robot and automation equipment department now?"

Lingjing Technology started out as a supplier of precision components. Long before the company went public through a backdoor listing, its business scope had gradually expanded to areas such as semiconductor displays, new materials, micro-nano optical devices, robotics and automation equipment. It is a serious physical manufacturing company, and a mid-to-high-end manufacturing company at that.

The company has long been involved in robots and automated equipment, which is one of the reasons why Xiao Yu promoted the intelligent medical operating table. Moreover, it can be promoted now, unlike single-organ cloning technology, which requires Chu Jinmeng and her to recruit a group of experts in the field of biology to form a team.

Developing single-organ cloning technology is a major cross-border undertaking for Lingjing Technology. It would not be appropriate for Xiao Yu to do it directly, so Chu Jinmeng and her professional technical team in the field of bioengineering are needed.

But it is not so troublesome to make an intelligent medical operating table, because it is a medical device and belongs to the field of mechanical equipment. The operating table can also be renamed as an intelligent surgical robot, and Lingjing Technology has been developing robots and automated equipment for a long time.

Now the company is shining in the field of AI and is leading the world. Developing smart medical operating tables is equivalent to the technical integration of "AI + medical devices".

Hearing Xiao Yu's question, Chu Jinmeng estimated and answered: "There are not many employees in this department, probably only about 300 people."

The Robot and Automation Equipment Department has long been a small marginal business within Lingjing Technology Company. It has not made any money to date and has instead been losing money. It has never been a core business department of the company.

At present, the employee scale of Lingjing Technology Company has expanded to 1.2 people, and it is still expanding. Relatively speaking, this department has only more than 300 people, which is indeed not a large number.

Xiao Yu nodded and said in a deep voice, "We are a little short of manpower. Please notify the human resources department to recruit more people to the department. Expand it to about 1000 people, and give priority to talents with a background in the medical device field. Recruit according to the above requirements."

Having said that, Xiao Yu handed a piece of material on the table to Yun Shu.

"Background in the field of medical devices?" Yun Shu took the materials but did not read them. Instead, he looked at Xiao Yu with a little surprise: "Are you going to cross over again?"

Xiao Yu immediately said: "Strictly speaking, it is not a cross-border business. One of the core competitiveness of our company is artificial intelligence. It should be said that we use the advantages of artificial intelligence technology to empower the clinical medicine field and open up new application scenarios."

Looking at Yun Shu who seemed to be thinking about something, Xiao Yu smiled and added, "Let's talk human language. I just want to try to develop a surgical robot. By combining artificial intelligence with medical devices, I want to achieve intelligent and unmanned surgery. The goal is to free surgeons from the operating table."

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(End of this chapter)