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Biotech / Medical : Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (ISRG)
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From: IceHawk3/14/2018 6:37:13 PM
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Intuitive Surgical, the dominant maker of surgical robots and perhaps Stryker’s biggest competitor in the surgical tech space, also understands the value of recording surgical procedures for analysis and training. It recently worked with researchers at the University of Southern California’s Keck Medicine to develop a “black box” tool for its its daVinci surgical robots, which could someday be used to log maneuvers made with the device.



This week, surgeons at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center announced that they were the first in the United States to successfully complete a sinus procedure using augmented reality. The technology overlays guidance tools onto the screen during endoscopic procedures, showing targets and helping surgeons avoid blood vessels and important nerves.

The Texas system is not the first in North America to use the augmented reality technology for ear, nose, and throat (ENT) interventions, however. McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Canada, began to apply Target Guided Surgery about a year ago. McGill’s Nader Sadeghi, MD, said that the Scopis system “turns any operation into educational content that we can use to teach residents.”

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