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According to a recent study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine published in JAMA Surgery, patients who undergo robotic colon surgery have no benefit over laparoscopy and the medical costs for the robotic surgery are higher. The data was from 244,129...
According to the FDA, Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci Robot system has received 3,697 adverse reports through November 3, 2013. This number is more than double of the number of adverse events Intuitive Surgical received last year at this time. Last year, the da Vinci...
In a study published in the prestigious Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Green Journal) covering 804,551 benign hysterectomies in the United States in 2009 and 2010, patients undergoing surgeries using robots (including da Vinci robot) were more likely to have...
In a recent inspection of Intuitive Surgical, the makers of the da Vinci surgical robot, the FDA found that Intuitive broke protocol when it warned customers of problems with one of the surgical equipment pieces without alerting any regulators. According to the FDA,...
As medicine searches for new means of surgical procedure, many felt with robotic surgeries there would be better health care and less chance of medical error. One of the leading robot surgeries is the Da Vinci robot machine made by Intuitive Surgical Inc. It was first...