Instruments made of materials like rubber may not heat all the way through, as many metals do, creating sterilization challenges. “Cleaning was once a basic factory job,” said Joe Lewelling, ...

Intuitive Surgical stock was falling Monday after the maker of surgical robots received its first Sell rating on Wall Street. Breaking from consensus, Deutsche Bank Research analyst Imron Zafar ...

Deutsche Bank downgraded Intuitive Surgical, Inc. amid rising competition and remanufactured tools. Click for my ISRG stock ...

It is estimated that two thirds of the world’s basic surgical instruments are manufactured in Sialkot. These are, in turn, supplied to companies in Europe and the US, ...

In Sialkot over 10,000 different medical instruments, covering all basic and surgical segments, are being manufactured. Over 99pc of production is centred at Sialkot.

In 2011, Shimane University Hospital, in Japan, deployed a high-frequency RFID solution to track surgical instruments used on patients through cleaning, sterilization and storage.The Rigshospitalet ...

These basic specificities should be integrated to the design of the remote center of motion (location in space where the surgical instrument is constrained to pass through) of any robotic platform ...

With surgical residents, operant learning rarely involves a clicker (and never a dog biscuit), but the basic principle—reinforcing proper technique with reward—stays the same.