Doctors were using a surgical robot on a Florida woman with colon cancer when the device burned her small intestine, followed by more procedures and ultimately her death, WFLA-TV reports, and now her husband has filed a lawsuit against the maker of the robot. In September 2021, Sandra Sultzer was undergoing a procedure at the Baptist […]
Harvey Sultzer, the husband of the late Sandra Sultzer, filed a lawsuit on Feb. 6 against Intuitive Surgical (IS) claiming his wife suffered health complications following a procedure completed by their surgical robot.
A robotic device burned and tore a woman’s small intestine while she was undergoing surgery for colon cancer, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed this week in Florida.
A stray electrical arc from a surgical robot burned a Palm Beach County woman’s small intestine during a colon cancer procedure and the error caused her death, a federal lawsuit is alleging. The suit, filed by Delray Beach resident Harvey Sultzer in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, claims that Intuitive Surgical Inc. failed to warn his wife, Sandra Sultzer, of issues that would have .