{"id":177826,"date":"2023-12-08T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-shape-shifting-robotic-catheter-could-make-heart-surgery-safer"},"modified":"2023-12-08T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:26:00","slug":"a-shape-shifting-robotic-catheter-could-make-heart-surgery-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-shape-shifting-robotic-catheter-could-make-heart-surgery-safer","title":{"rendered":"A shape-shifting robotic catheter could make heart surgery safer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-shape-shifting-robotic-catheter-could-make-heart-surgery-safer3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A beating heart makes for a formidable surgical arena, but a new robotic catheter could someday equip surgeons to operate in the cardiac environment with greater ease.<\/p>\n<p>The device, designed by a team of physicians and engineers at Boston University, possesses shape-shifting capabilities that allow it to be maneuvered through complex anatomy while maintaining enough stability to accomplish surgical objectives within the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/heart\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adi5559\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, the authors demonstrated the robot\u2019s ability to assist with two mock cardiac procedures using animal tissue. The study authors suggest that, with further development, the robotic <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/catheter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">catheter<\/a> could make many common heart surgeries far safer and less taxing on the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beating heart makes for a formidable surgical arena, but a new robotic catheter could someday equip surgeons to operate in the cardiac environment with greater ease. The device, designed by a team of physicians and engineers at Boston University, possesses shape-shifting capabilities that allow it to be maneuvered through complex anatomy while maintaining enough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}