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Bell Canada Network Assists With Telerobotics Surgery

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HAMILTON, Ontario, March 5 -- What's claimed to be the first hospital-to-hospital telerobotics-assisted operation -- performed Feb. 28 by Mehran Anvari from St. Joseph's Healthcare, in Hamilton, Ontario, on a patient in North Bay, Ontario -- was transmitted via Bell Canada's national IP backbone. Anvari assisted Craig McKinley, a North Bay-based surgeon, in performing laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication (acid reflux) surgery over a distance of about 250 miles. The operation took place over Bell Canada's commercial networking service known as VPNe, or virtual private network enterprise, which...Read full article

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