Trend and prospect of the magnetic surgery

Abstract

Reviewing the development history of magnetic surgery in the past 40 years, it has obtained plentiful achievements. By means of the magnetic surgery, a number of sophisticated clinical problems are solved, and some basic surgical operations are optimized, showing good development prospect. The theoretical knowledge system of magnetic surgery has been established, and it enriches the surgical system, and cultivates a group of medical-engineering professionals. The representative achievements of the magnetic surgery are as below. The related basic researches and clinical researches are becoming more comprehensive in breadth and depth, and the rate of transformation of the research achievements is gradually increasing. Additionally, the magnetic surgery practically serves the clinic and benefits the patients. With the deepening of the basic research and the expansion of medical-engineering cross, magnetic surgery has shown huge development space and has accumulated the potential to lead several surgical techniques to change. At present, global scientific and technological innovation has entered an unprecedented period of intensive activity, and a new round of technological revolution and industrial change is restructuring the global innovation landscape and reshaping the global economic structure. Today, the concept of precision surgery, that safe, efficient, minimally invasive, and maximum benefits for patients, has put forward higher requirements for surgical instruments and equipment. Although the surgical energy equipment and instruments, especially original instruments and equipment, has not achieved tremendous development yet, magnetic surgery pays more attention to original innovation and integrated innovation. It is expected to follow the trend driven by innovation and become an emerging branch of surgery. Therefore, this article aims to briefly review the history of the development of magnetic surgery, focusing on the future development trends and directions of magnetic surgery. In the history of the development of magnetic surgery for more than 40 years, the achievements of magnetic surgery research was observed chronologically. We have concluded that the current development of magnetic surgery has the following four trends. Firstly, the basic research on magnetic surgery and research on magnetic materials are getting more thorough. Secondly, the applied research on magnetic surgery is getting deeper. Thirdly, the cross of science and technology related to magnetic medicine is getting closer. Fourthly, the transformation of achievement of magnetic surgery research is getting faster and faster. In addition, we discusse and summarize three potential development directions of magnetic surgery in the next few years. Firstly, new magnetic materials lead to new applications on surgery, such as magnetic hydrogel software robot used in interventional operation and the application of light-curable magnetic materials used in the endoscopic surgery. Secondly, magnetic materials can be combined with other elements to solve complex surgical problems. For instance, magnet and gel will be combined to achieve rapid liver transplantation, and hard magnet combined with soft magnetic solution for treating the refractory constipation. Thirdly, the new application scenarios of magnetic surgery will be discovered and expanded. For example, the magnetic damping technique used to treat nystagmus. In summary, magnetic surgery shows a good development trend, and there are still huge development prospects and directions in the future. We hope that the magnetic surgery will continue to develop and achieve great achievements in the future.