“The view here is in some future combat situation, if a soldier is injured in the battlefield…”
Thomas Low is director of medical systems at S-R-I International based in California’s bay area. He’s showing what looks like a video game, but is actually a simulation of a rescue operation of an injured soldier, all with robots.
The battlefield robots are some of the more futuristic ideas being featured this week at the annual convention of the American Telemedicine Conference being held at Gaylord Opryland.
In the video, a Humvee-like vehicle drives out onto the battlefield while little robots put the soldier on a stretcher, which wheels into the back of the mobile unit where robots operate.
“The goal here is really to provide care that allows the soldiers to make it to the operating table alive. That might be a half an hour, whereas, without that kind of care, they have only minutes before they bleed to death.”
Most of the conference focuses on better ways to treat patients from a distance with technology like the internet or cell phones, ranging from diabetes management to remote surgery after natural disasters.
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