Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

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Many cases require an assistant to hold tissue away from the area of the operation or to help with counter traction for easier dissection. Also having a suction port can be essential for certain procedures.

Yes you only have two hands but if you can use the third instrument for retraction of tissue that is an advantage.


The davinci system will compete with Sport. The advantages of the Sport system have to be the following:

Lower Price to acquire
Smaller foot print and easily moved from room to room
Lower cost of maintenance
Better ergonomic work station
Need to have great sales/education staff

I see the Sport as a robotic instrument that will need other small ports to complete certain procedures.

The problem with any single port system is the size of the port. The main morbidity from the trocar is hernia creation at the site and pain at the site. I personally would rather have 4 5mm holes in my abdominal wall than one large painful hole. That has been the draw back to single site surgery over the past 5 years.
Will have to compare the port sizes between the two systems.

However certain operations require removal of a specimen, i.e. large gallstones, colon, uterus, spleen therefore the port site can be used and there is no downside.