5G Technology Enables World’s First Remote Brain Surgery
Dr Ling Zhipei, a surgeon at the People’s Liberation Army General Hospital, has performed the world’s first ever brain surgery over a 5G mobile network. Using surgical robots, he put a deep brain stimulation implant, a medical device, into a patient with Parkinson’s disease while he was at Sanya, on the island of Hainan, while his patient was in Beijing more than 1,800 miles (3,000km) away.
According to him, the technology will make it easier for medics to operate on people who live in more remote areas and can’t travel. The operation was performed using surgical robots controlled by Dr Ling who connected to them through a 5G mobile network while he was working in Hainan. The procedure lasted for about three hours, and the patient was fine after the operation.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) helps to control problems associated with movement, and is the main type of surgery used to treat Parkinson’s disease. It involves implanting very fine wires with electrodes at their tips into the brain. These are connected to extensions under the skin behind the ear and down the neck which then connect to a pulse generator. When the device is turned on, electrodes deliver high frequency stimulation to the targeted area which changes signals in the brain that causes Parkinson’s.
Dr Ling said that the 5G network has solved problems like video lag and remote control delay experienced under the 4G network ensuring a nearly real time operation.
The operation was performed with the help of China Mobile network and Huawei’s 5G technology.
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