South Korea (South Korea) will use robots to conduct a corona virus swab test that triggers Covid-19.
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Monday, June 29, 2020 | 3:30 WIB
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Illustration of a robot. (Freepics)
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Solopos.com, SOLO – Medical personnel are vulnerable to contracting the virus corona when dealing with patients who are confirmed positive for the virus. For this, South Korea (South Korea) will use robots to conduct tests swab virus corona.
The robot is being designed by the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) under the South Korean Ministry of Science and Technology, which is designing a robot that can carry out tests swab.
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Dr Seo Joon-ho from the Medical Device Lab at Daegu Convergence Technology Research Center said the technology would be used for the method of sampling dangerous diseases without having direct contact. The goal is certainly to prevent transmission of disease.
Joon-ho and the team collaborated with Professor Kim Nam-hee from Dongguk University College of Medicine. “This is expected to be clinically useful for diagnosing infectious diseases in the future,” Joon-ho said in a report in the Korea Biomedical Review that was quoted as saying Detik.com, Sunday (6/28/2020).
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Later, the patient is quite prepared to put his face in the holder that has been provided, such as the face holder of the eye doctor. The robot will do the test swab virus corona to the patient’s nose.
This robot is equipped with a swab test handle that is disposable and can be changed. This robot is controlled by medical personnel from another room with joystick.
There are monitors that monitor the nasal cavity to the larynx so that the robot operator can take samples accurately with the test stem swab long.
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The operator can control the test stem swab up and down, left or right. Medical personnel can also communicate with patients via video.
Joystick it has a touch sensitive response. Thus, the robot operator can feel like a patient’s nasal cavity directly with a test kit swab.
Source: Detik.com
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