Time to start selling the vessel sealer ladies and gentleman

[Anonymous]

I think this will improve case times allowing the busy surgeons to get busier. If they are in a good program that markets them, they will continue to consolidate market and attack the 50+% open procedures being performed in the US.

Thought?

 

[Anonymous]

It will hurt those cases in which an ESS / COV vessel sealer is used in addition to the robot. It won't eliminate the outside devices altogether (who knows how well it does its job?) but it could reduce sales within those cases by 50% What it won't do is drive non-DaVinci users towards adoption. No one has been aching to use DaVinci but held back because it didn't have a vessel sealer (or stapler).

 

[Anonymous]

It will hurt those cases in which an ESS / COV vessel sealer is used in addition to the robot. It won't eliminate the outside devices altogether (who knows how well it does its job?) but it could reduce sales within those cases by 50% What it won't do is drive non-DaVinci users towards adoption. No one has been aching to use DaVinci but held back because it didn't have a vessel sealer (or stapler).

One of the arguements cited by those sitting on the sidelines is that da Vinci increases the time it takes to do a procedure. It can take a while to coagulate the uterines with a PK or bipolar and then cut in small steps with the scissors. A sealer could take down these vessels in one quick action. It should speed up the procedure time and eliminate this objection.

Colorectal surgeons use vessel sealers frequently to take the IMA/IMV and colic vessels. This instrument should reduce their arguements about the current limitations of da Vinci bipolars when taking these vessels.

 

[Anonymous]

But wait till what you see after the meeting . Suction /Irrigation is next . WE WANT IT ALL

 

[Anonymous]

The FDA posted details on the device. Take a look at the following link, sounds pretty cool!

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf11/K110639.pdf

 

[Anonymous]

The FDA release is only a summary. One misleading piece of information is that the electrosurgical generator is not a full-feature ERBE VIO 300D. It is, however, an co-labeled ESU with both the ERBE and da Vinci name on it. It's only function is a single vessel sealing waveform.

 

[Anonymous]

So how are first cases going with it? Working well? Docs liking it?

 

[Anonymous]

when you can't quite see the iceberg til it's too late "you are the new Titanic---- Covidien"