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Robotic surgery linked to 144 deaths in the US
- stephengillie 11y agoPrevious submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9920913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9920913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9923294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9923294 --- My response from a previous submission: > Their paper says 144 deaths, 1,391 injuries and 8,061 device malfunctions were recorded out of a total of more than 1.7 million robotic procedures carried out between January 2000 and December 2013. So that's 0.00847% death rate, 0.082% injury rate, and 0.47% device malfunction rate.
- DiabloD3 11y agoThank you for your statistical analysis. Is there matching statistics comparing the death and injury percentage of non-robotic surgeries?
- stephengillie 11y agoSadly there's not; this is one of the complaints about the article that has come up in previous discussions. Another commenter did come up with equivalent statistics that showed humans with a much higher error rate; however others disputed the comparison as the time frame and other factors did not match exactly.