What will Ethicon/Covidien do once ISI launches stapler?

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Anonymous said:
this rep makes my argument perfectly - Here is what he is saying "my mother can do what she wants but as for the rest of you smucks mothers put their ass under my high dollar slow robot". He wouldnt advise his mother? She is a secretary and he watches 5 of these a day but she can make her own decisions. Thats because he knows this technique is not efficacious.
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No, I would advise my mother have a da Vinci surgery because the complication rates, blood loss rates, and conversion to open surgery rates are much lower with da Vinci surgery than with traditional lap. However, what she chooses is between her and her doctor; it's not between me (a rep) and my mother. Don't twist my words to mean something that I didn't intend.
 






Go directly to jail, do not pass go, and do not collect $200. Back to the drawing board Guys!

Cardica Provides Update on MicroCutter™ Program
-- Company to Host Conference Call at 9:00 a.m. ET, Friday, January 13, 2012 --


REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardica, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDC) today announced the suspension of enrollment in its European clinical trial of the MicroCutter XPRESS™ 30 due to a small subset of deployments where the XPRESS 30 did not perform satisfactorily in thicker tissue. The company has isolated the underlying cause, which requires modifications to the product. There have been no serious adverse events and all patients have had an uneventful postoperative course as it relates to the use of the MicroCutter.

Cardica has reprioritized the development activities of its MicroCutter product line to emphasize the development of the MicroCutter XCHANGE™ 30. In addition to the acceleration of development for the XCHANGE 30, the company intends to pursue modifications of the XPRESS™ 30 concurrently. Cardica plans to continue the trial with the XCHANGE™ 30, a cartridge-based microcutter device with a 5 millimeter shaft diameter, by the end of the first calendar quarter of 2012, once this device completes development and design verification, and Cardica is able to apply Conformite Europeenne (CE) Mark to the device.

The surgical indications for the trial will not change, with thicker tissue resections and anastomosis intended to be added in the latter part of the trial once the XPRESS 30 modifications have been completed and verified. In light of Cardica's limited financial resources, Cardica has suspended development of other potential products in its planned microcutter product line until the development of XCHANGE™ 30 has been completed and additional financial resources have been obtained.

"We are disappointed that the XPRESS 30 did not perform as well as we expected in the upper range of tissue thickness but understand and are confident we can make the changes needed to enhance performance. In the interim, the XCHANGE 30 will allow us to resume trial enrollment in the near future while also providing Cardica with a readily marketable product that is substantially smaller with significantly enhanced articulation range," said Bernard A. Hausen, M.D., Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Cardica. "At this time, we believe that rapidly advancing our smallest, cartridge-based device, the XCHANGE 30, through development and into a clinical trial, while addressing the underlying issue with the XPRESS 30, will allow us to reach the European and US markets with our premier product in the most efficient manner."
 






Above posted by a Covidien Intelligent Device buttwad no doubt that probably wishes someone else's project is as screwed as theirs is....What is it now 5 years trying to come up with something other than their 70's technology? Design your own = fail
buy someone elses = fail...whats next? Keep pulling your talent from black & decker and duracell and maybe you could screw wounds closed. All your talent left a long time ago and all your left with is other device manufacturers rejects and college grads.
Heres a DUET for you Coviden failure meets loser.
 












LMAO---Look at the public information. Robots in far more than 13% of the hospitals in the U.S...FAR MORE. At nearly 600 a share, the days of Covidien and JNJ looking to buy them are long past. They should have done that 4 years ago when the stock dropped to 90 for a short time. Its far too expensive and a business that nobody knows how to really run. No way in hell they would buy them. As far as a Third Party company making instruments, not going to happen. Two words for everyone that knows what i'm talking about "Dallas Chip". simply put, it's not possible. Lastly, Titan is a far far distant competitor when they do come to market. It's not the system, its the instrumentation and tools that will take forever to come out with. Don't count on any of this anytime soon.

Anonymous said:
people can be so stupid.

there are about 6000 hospitals in the US

Intuitive is in about 13 percent of those hospitals

so that leaves more than 85 percent that do not have a robot.

THose hospitals will still buy from Ethicon/Covidien.

The real questions are, what will the Intuitive employees do when Covidien or Ethicon buys Intuitive and when Titan enters the market? Say goodbye to your overpaid positions.

Also, I heard today that an third party company is going to be selling robotic instruments. Any truth to that? Not sure how it would be possible.

How funny would that be though?
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Robots will be highly restricted to regional centers in the future, and the initial costs as well as the OR delays due to the docking time required for case set up will further restrict their use. Insurance companies will soon start restricting reimbursement based on type of procedure, and exclude common procedures like lap chole and lap inguinal hernia... Remember the big rush to buy KTP-YAG lasers at the dawn of lap chole?? Within two years most hospitals had switched to cautery, and the lasers were expensive door stops... Nuff said!!
 






Anonymous said:
Game Over?? are you serious? Did you just graduate college deusch?


Here's news for you, you're with Intuitive about 4 years to late. Everyone else that was with the company made big money with the stock and now your just an Intuitive servant.


In words you'd understand, the Intuitive Game is Over, has been for years.

But that won't keep folks like you who had a hard on to work for them for years from slaving a way for a company that you wont benefit from the stock increases any more.

Change your verbage, you sound ignorant.

Hope you realize the competition is nearly here and your sorry ass company that abused so many hospitals Game will soon be over.
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I'm wondering how the release of the Xi, stapler, and single site for Si in the last several years affect the views on this thread
 












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