Intuitive Surgical Sued in New York for Death Arising out of use of its da Vinci Robot
NEW YORK, April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The father of his deceased 24 year old daughter has commenced a lawsuit in New York against Intuitive Surgery, Inc., the maker of the da Vinci surgical robot, alleging that the device caused her death.
In his complaint, filed by the firm of Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, McCartney & Giuffra LLP of New York City, Gilmore McCalla asserts that when his daughter was having a hysterectomy in a Bronx hospital in August 2010, the robot caused burns to an artery and her intestines, which led to her death two weeks later.
The complaint alleges design flaws in the da Vinci robot, including un-insulated surgical arms and use of electrical current which can jump to healthy internal organs and tissue.
Evergreen Hospital Performs Region's First Single-Site Gallbladder Removal Using da Vinci Robot
KIRKLAND, Wash., March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Evergreen Hospital – one of the region's leaders in minimally invasive surgery – performed the first robot-assisted single-incision gallbladder removal in the Washington and Oregon region on March 21 in a procedure just approved by the FDA.
Evergreen's Dr.
GeckoSystems Marketing SafePath(tm) Technology for Mobile Robots and Conventional Navigation Systems
CONYERS, Ga., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (Pink Sheets: GOSY | ) -- announced today that as a result of recent enhancements to GeckoNav(tm), the company is now calling their suite of fundamental mobile robot solutions for automatic, self-navigation: "SafePath Enabled(tm)." GeckoSystems is a dynamic leader in the emerging mobile robotics industry revolutionizing their development and usage with "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service(tm)."
SafePath technology is an innovative navigation system created by GeckoSystems that merges robotic technology with traditional steering, locomotion and automatic guidance systems. SafePath goes beyond the collision avoidance syste ...
