June 21, 2011

To simplify the work medsёster experts decided to allocate part of the duties of special robots to nurses We were better able to focus on patients. This system is already being tested in US hospitals, informiruetThe Daily Mail.

Main responsibilities auxiliary robots   will include the delivery of medicines, food, laundry, laboratory samples, as well as garbage collection. Depending on the functions of the robots are different in size, and can move around the hospital without any help. Thus, the nurses will give more attention to the treatment and the robot will perform the delivery and other metabolic processes. The robot never   do not confuse   drugs, because will be placed on a trolley barcode.

Peter Seyff   an employee of the company Aethon, manufactures robots, called TUGs. He said the robots will enable nurses less distracted from the treatment of patients, resulting in improve the quality of work. They will also be equipped with technology Scanning and Web cameras, to avoid an accident.

Testing has shown that the use of these robots will save more than 6,000 hours of time spent on dressing drugs, and the problem was solved with the disappearance of the latter. As a result, one robot It can replace the three people, but costs less and works the whole day.