How Advances In the Technology Transforming the Surgical Practices?

Abdul Qadeer Memon, Jamshed Akhtar

Abstract

In the present century, science and technology have progressed at a great pace. Medical fields, including surgical specialties are equally benefiting from this as number of innovations are added into the surgical practices. However, during the 20th century a remarkable leap was also made. It included organ transplantation, the use of heart-lung bypass machine to facilitate open heart surgeries, minimal-invasive surgery, robot-aided surgeries, and many other procedures in different surgical specialties like orthopedics, ophthalmology, to name a few.1