5.1 Surgical Applications

Due to its historical development and sensitivity to one's life, clinical surgery dominates the medical profession and is heavily technology intensive, where smart sensor technology should be regarded as an indispensible component of the practice. Now, smart sensors are finding their sensitive place at the heart of medical engineering interfacing three other distinct fields of: (a) the well-established world of the medical profession; (b) exciting forthcoming new precision engineering and; (c) an exciting world of information-communication technologies. Smart sensors have shown their uses in surgical application being in the hands-on part of the practice or provision of smart space where we expect clinics, hospitals and operational theatre....