The Lindbergh Operation
One of the earliest remote surgeries was conducted on 7 September 2001 across the Atlantic Ocean, with a surgeon (Dr. Jacques Marescaux) in New York performing a cholecystectomy on a 68-year-old female patient 6,230 km away in Strasbourg, France named Operation Lindbergh. That operation, called Project Lindbergh after Charles Lindbergh’s pioneering transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, was conducted over a dedicated fiberoptic link to ensure guaranteed connectivity and minimal lag.
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