The team at St. Michael’s is hopeful that the procedure can now be done by a doctor over 600 kilometres away.
In a world first, St. Michael’s Hospital had a neurosurgeon perform an angiogram from 6km away using a remotely steered robot.
Quantifying blood flow instead of relying on angiography alone led to a change in diagnosis for 53% of patients.
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