Earth-bound surgeons remotely controlled a small robot aboard the International Space Station over the weekend, conducting the first-ever such surgery in orbit albeit on rubber bands.The technology could also be used to develop remote-control surgery techniques on Earth, to serve isolated areas.
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 […]
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 .
A new type of surgical robot has come to the Mountain West, bringing with it faster recovery times, reduced scarring, and overall better patient outcomes.