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USGI Medical > Licenses Incisionless Surgery Technology > Intuitive Surgical > Endosurgical Operating System EOS > Endolumenal procedures within the GI tract > Translumenal procedures > NOTES Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery > TransPort Multi-lumen Operating Platform > g-Prox(R) Tissue Grasper and Approximation Device > expandable tissue anchors

Monday, May 12, 2008

Will USGI’s technical and clinical development including their intellectual property combined with Intuitive’s robotic capabilities lead to the development of NOTES robotic products? Will the license agreement help to establish the EOS as the leading, most complete surgical platform for Incisonless Surgery? Will mechanical and robotic solutions complement each other and together advance the field […]

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Natural Orifice Surgery NOS > Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research NOSCAR > Mark Talamini > University of California San Diego > School of Medicine > Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons SAGES 2008 > Natural-orifice gastric revisions > Covidien > Ethicon > USGI Medical

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

What is the value that the Natural Orifice Surgery NOS technique adds to a surgical procedure? Is NOSCAR surgery enthusiasm self-serving in order to keep the research going? Which high-volume procedure will be the incentive to keep the NOS development rolling?

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Transoral endoscopic anchor placement system > Gastric bypass pouch and stoma reduction > Successful feasibility study > Technology assessment > Daniel Herron > Desmond Birkett > Chris Thompson > Marc Bessler > Lee Swanström

Monday, December 31, 2007

How successful is the technology for the clinical circumstances for which it is being evaluated? Will there be a technology assessment by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ASGE following the feasibility of reducing the stoma diameter using transoral endoscopic suturing techniques? Will there be an adequate randomized clinical trial in the near future to […]

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Can the EOS system be used to create and anchor full thickness folds within the stomach and will the technique make it possible to close the gastrotomy through the mouth? Are surgeons one step closer to eliminate the laparoscopic ports used to guide their first NOTES cases in patients? Is the future of NOTES surgery […]

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