Table 1. A summary of the benefits of telesurgery.

Benefits of Telesurgery

Provides high-quality surgery to medically underserved locations [6]such as rural areas, battlefields, and spacecraft [5-8]

Eliminates the need for long-distance travels, along with travel-related financial burden and dangers [2-5,7]

Today’s 3-Dimensional display system provides a shared, high-definition visual feedback to surgeons at different centers simultaneously [5,9]

Allows for surgical collaboration amongst surgeons at different medical centers in real-time [3,10]

Operator’s physiologic tremor can be canceled out in real-time with accelerometer technology [3,11-13], improving surgical accuracy and reducing damage to adjacent healthy tissues [3,12]

Minimized damage to healthy tissues quickens patient recovery [3]